Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture

Beyond Sherlock Holmes
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-69310-1
Verlag: Palgrave Pivot

Buch, Englisch, 116 Seiten, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 2788 g

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.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Krawczyk-Zywko, Lucyna

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Beyond Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction (Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko).- 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).

Über Autor(innen)

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.