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The Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes and Beyond (Hardcover)
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The Critical Reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes and Beyond (Hardcover)
Series: Literary Criticism in Perspective
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Examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's
work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their
adaptations, and also attending to the wide range of his published
work. Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and
moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock
Holmes, the world's most recognizable fictional detective. Holmes's
enduring popularity has kept Conan Doyle in the public eye.
However, Holmes has taken on a life of his own, generating a steady
stream of critical commentary, while Conan Doyle's other works are
slighted or ignored. Yet the Holmes stories make up only a small
portion of Conan Doyle's published work, which includes mainstream
and historical fiction; history; drama; medical, spiritualist, and
political tracts; and even essays on photography. When Doyle
published - whatever the subject - his contemporaries took note.
Yet, outside of the fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, until
recently relatively little has been done to analyze the reception
Conan Doyle's work received during his lifetime and since his
death. This book examines both academic and popular assessments of
Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and
their many adaptations for print, visual, and online media, but
attending to his other contributions to
turn-of-the-twentieth-century culture as well. The availability of
periodicals and newspapers online makes it possible to develop an
assessment of Conan Doyle's (and Sherlock Holmes's) reputation
among a wider readership and viewership, thus allowing for
development of a broader and more accurate portrait of Doyle's
place in literary and cultural history.
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