Overview
- Offers a wide-ranging reconceptualization of the role of Sherlock Holmes within contemporary culture
- Takes an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the enduring appeal of Arthur Conan Doyle's best-loved creation
- Approaches Holmes from surprising alternative angles to explore the scope of the character's influence across the literary world
Part of the book series: Crime Files (CF)
Access this book
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Other ways to access
Table of contents (11 chapters)
Keywords
About this book
Reviews
“Sherlock Holmes in Context covers topics not found in other books about Holmes and offers new insights into Sherlock and other adaptations. As part of Palgrave Macmillan’s Crime Files series, this book should help scholars and fans (or those who are both at once) discover new interpretations of well-known stories, novels, films, and episodes and gain a deeper understanding of the multi-faceted Sherlock Holmes.” (Lynnette Porter, English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 61 (3), 2018)
“This was a very strong collection of essays, which were engagingly written, thought provoking and stimulating. They follow on well from one another, with essays often picking up similar themes from the previous one but discussing them in a different way. … I definitely recommend this collection for fans of Sherlock Holmes … .” (crossexaminingcrime, crossexaminingcrime.wordpress.com, May, 2017)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Sam Naidu is Associate Professor in the Department of English, Rhodes University, South Africa. Her main research and teaching areas are crime and detective fiction and transnational literature. She has published widely on South African crime and detective fiction and also on indigenous folklore and ethnography in colonial South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sherlock Holmes in Context
Editors: Sam Naidu
Series Title: Crime Files
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-55595-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-55594-6Published: 24 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-71741-5Published: 04 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-55595-3Published: 17 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2947-8340
Series E-ISSN: 2947-8359
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 206
Number of Illustrations: 22 b/w illustrations
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature