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Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity (Hardcover, New Ed)
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Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity (Hardcover, New Ed)
Series: The Nineteenth Century Series
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A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been
the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All
his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography,
Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes
themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana
Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that
nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so
successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to
become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on
his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an
alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and
his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest
crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions
to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late
Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian,
legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his
fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of
British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study
offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a
series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy
and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British
culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of
St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a
Socialist age.
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