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Sherlock Holmes in Context
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This edited collection is distinctive in covering a wide range of media, geographical locations, genres and perspectives, with a central focus on the enduring and ubiquitous appeal of the figure of Sherlock Holmes. It positions Holmes in relation to intellectual history and, in so doing, uses Holmes as a lens of thinking about a range of pressing social issues. The underlying argument in this book, then, is twofold: it demonstrates how Holmes has historically engaged with contemporary social issues, and shows some of the new directions of this tradition across contemporary reincarnations.
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Table of contents
- Sherlock Holmes in Context
- Introduction
- “All that Matters is the Work”: Text and Adaptation in Sherlock
- Clients Who Disappear and Colleagues Who Cannot Compete: Female Characters in the BBC’s Sherlock
- “I, Too, Mourn the Loss”: Mrs. Hudson and the Absence of Sherlock Holmes
- The Trickster, Remixed: Sherlock Holmes as Master of Disguise
- Holmes and his Boswell in Cosplay and Roleplay
- A “Horrific Breakdown of Reason”: Holmes and the Postcolonial Anti-Detective Novel, Lost Ground
- Sherlock Holmes and the Fiction of Agency
- The Savage Subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Holmes into Challenger: The Dark Investigator
- Modernizing Holmes: Location and Bringing Sherlock into the Twenty-First Century
- Index