Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture

Beyond Sherlock Holmes

Buch | Softcover

XIII, 116 Seiten

2018 | Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-88753-1 (ISBN)

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In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle's creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives' importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era.

Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her main research area is contemporary reimaginings of Victorian villains and detectives, historic and fictional. She has published primarily on Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.

1. Beyond Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction (Lucyna Krawczyk- ywko) 2. Inspector Bucket: A Dickensian Detective (Justyna Jajszczok) 3. Sergeant Cuff and Spectacles of Detective Intrusion in The Moonstone and Its Adaptations (Jacek Mydla) 4. Edmund Reid and the Representation of the Middle Class in Ripper Street (Dorota Babilas) 5. The Case of the Two Gregsons: From A Study in Scarlet to Elementary (Brigitta Hudácskó) 6. Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist (Robert Perret) 7. A Psychiatrist as a Detective: Laszlo Kreizler, Stratham Younger, and Max Liebermann (Barbara Braid)

Erscheint lt. Verlag	4.9.2018
Zusatzinfo	XIII, 116 p.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Gewicht	182 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
Schlagworte	Detective Film and Television • Inspector Bucket • Ripper Street • Victorian Adaptation • Victorian Detectives and Adaptation
ISBN-10	3-319-88753-X / 331988753X
ISBN-13	978-3-319-88753-1 / 9783319887531
Zustand	Neuware