Gender and Genre in 21st Century Visions of Sherlock Holmes
Author | : Jennifer Lackey |
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Release | : 2015 |
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Author | : Jennifer Lackey |
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Release | : 2015 |
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Author | : Nadine Farghaly |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2015-12-23 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1476622817 |
From his 1887 literary debut to his many film and television adaptations, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes has lost none of his appeal. Besides Holmes himself, no character in Conan Doyle's stories proves as interesting as the astute detective's constant companion, Dr. Watson, who somehow seems both superfluous and essential. While Conan Doyle does not depict Holmes and Watson as equals, he avoids presenting Watson as incompetent, as he was made to appear on screen for decades. A variety of reimagined Holmeses and Watsons in recent years have depicted their relationship as more nuanced and complementary. Focusing on the Guy Ritchie films, the BBC's Sherlock and CBS's Elementary, this collection of new essays explores the ideas and implications behind these adaptations.
Author | : Lynnette Porter |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2012-08-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0786468408 |
The 21st century is a good time to be Sherlock Holmes. He stars in the Guy Ritchie films, with Robert Downey, Jr.; an internationally popular BBC television series featuring Benedict Cumberbatch; a novel sanctioned by the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate; and dozens of additional novels and short stories, including two by Neil Gaiman. Add to this the videogames, comic books, and fan-created works, plus a potent Internet and social media presence. Holmes' London has become a prime destination for cinematic tourists. The evidence is clearly laid out in this collection of 14 new essays: Holmes and Watson are more popular than ever. The detective has been portrayed as hero, and antihero. He's tech savvy, and scientifically detached--even psychologically aberrant. He has been romantically linked to The Woman and bromantically to Watson. Whether Victorian or modern, he continues to fascinate. These essays explain why he is destined to be with us for years to come. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
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Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 21 |
Release | : 2021-12-24 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3346561887 |
Seminar paper from the year 2021 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: 2,0, Leuphana Universität Lüneburg (Institute of Engilsh Studies), language: English, abstract: Women are part of almost every Sherlock Holmes story. But in how far are women presented in the stories of Sherlock Holmes and does the portrayal allow inferences regarding the Victorian Era? This paper tries to find overlaps between the women in Sherlock Holmes and women in Victorian England. For reasons of the limited text size of this paper, only the original texts from Sir Arthur Conan Doyle will be dealt with. The various adaptations, that appeared later, will not be covered. The leading question of this term paper is: To what degree do Sherlock Holmes women conform to the gender roles in the Victorian Era? To find answers on that question, the structure of the paper is as follows. First, a contextual overview about the Victorian Era will be given. The Era will be classified in time, such as historical developments. Secondly, gender roles in the Victorian Era will be discussed. The explanation will include roles of Victorian men for reasons of exemplification and comparison. However, this paper focus is in particular on the role of women in the Victorian Era. The roles of Victorian women will be structured into three sub-sections. One sub- section deals with the concept of separate spheres in the Victorian Era, another on the notion of love and marriage and lastly with the ideal image of women, sexual ethics and double standards in the Victorian Era. Afterwards, these sub-sections will be brought into context with the Sherlock Holmes stories. Therefore, the canon will be classified in the time context. Furthermore, exemplary women who appear in the canon will be analysed and their roles will be compared with the roles of Victorian women. The three sub-sections will be put in context with Sherlock Holmes., by trying to allow draw comparisons. Lastly, a conclusion will be made, and an outlook will be given towards possible further research.
Author | : Annette Eileen Wren |
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Total Pages | : 307 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Gender identity |
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My dissertation takes a selection of post-2010 Sherlock Holmes adaptations and appropriations and examines how they challenge, deconstruct, and transform gender and sexuality. I construct this investigation on the argument that, as works of popular culture, the Sherlock Holmes stories reflect and engage with popular understandings of gender and sexuality; the adaptations and appropriations, also works of popular culture, underscore recent, radical shifts and changes in twenty-first-century gender and sexuality. To explore these shifts, I employ a variety of methodologies. I begin with Annette Kolodny's "playful pluralism" to better contextualize gender in the Victorian Era and the characters and character dynamics of the Sherlock Holmes canon. I further emphasize the nuances in the canon and how its inclusion of "New Woman" characters reveal Conan Doyle's more progressive views of women's rights. After establishing these key contexts, I turn to my chosen adaptations and appropriations. I first focus on post-2010 secondary characters whose complex storylines emphasize negotiation rather than textual fidelity. I argue that these characters approach gender as a performed role defined through social norms; while a character's ability to denaturalize the gender apparatus varies, all characters embody challenges to the binary structures of "male" and "female." Next, I scrutinize adaptations that maintain the male-male relationship between Holmes and Watson; in short, the Victorian homosocial bond shifts to more emotive, affective bromance-like relationships. My fourth concentrates on two female authors who transform Sherlock Holmes into Charlotte Holmes. Sherry Thomas and Brittany Cavallaro appropriate Sherlock Holmes for the purpose of promoting and exploring feminism and women-centered stories. To frame this chapter analysis, I utilize feminism, gender studies, and adaptation studies. My conclusion is an appropriation of my own. This story takes place as a parallel to "The Man with the Twisted Lip" (December 1891). Rather than follow Sherlock Holmes and John Watson on a case, "The Adventure of the Elephant Figurine" follows Mary Watson, psychic detective, on a case regarding the vindictive spirit of a dead husband. I wrote "Elephant Figurine" as a contribution to the feminist appropriations of the Sherlock Holmes canon.
Author | : See Wei Poo |
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Total Pages | : 63 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character) |
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Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
Publisher | : Lindhardt og Ringhof |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 2020-09-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 8726586258 |
Holmes’ life is in danger. The criminal mastermind Moriarty is after him. Holmes has stood in his way several times, attempting to catch him and prove his guilty. The great detective creates a complex plan with the only goal to solve what is to be the greatest and crowning achievement of his lifetime. Moriarty is however an equal opponent who is not to be underestimated. Moriarty’s and Holmes’ paths cross near The Reichenbach Falls in Switzerland. Who will prevail in this battle between good and bad, law and outlaw? Will Holmes complete his life goal or he will die trying? "The Final Problem" is a part of "The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes". Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
Author | : Elizabeth Hutchinson Crocker |
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Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 1996 |
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Author | : Arthur Conan Doyle |
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Total Pages | : 616 |
Release | : 2018 |
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ISBN | : 3963764759 |
Author | : Xiaoqing Cheng |
Publisher | : University of Hawaii Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2006-10-31 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0824830997 |
Shanghai in the 1920s and 1930s—"the Paris of the Orient"—was both a glittering metropolis and a shadowy world of crime and social injustice. It was also home to Huo Sang and Bao Lang, fictional Chinese counterparts to Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. The duo lived in a spacious apartment on Aiwen Road, where Huo Sang played the violin (badly) and smoked Golden Dragon cigarettes as he mulled over his cases. Cheng Xiaoqing (1893–1976), "The Grand Master" of twentieth-century Chinese detective fiction, had first encountered Conan Doyle’s highly popular stories as an adolescent. In the ensuing years he played a major role in rendering them first into classical and later into vernacular Chinese. In the late 1910s, Cheng began writing detective fiction very much in Conan Doyle’s style, with Bao as the Watson-like-I narrator—a still rare instance of so direct an appropriation from foreign fiction. Cheng Xiaoqing wrote detective stories to introduce the advantages of critical thinking to his readers, to encourage them to be skeptical and think deeply, because truth often lies beneath surface appearances. His attraction to the detective fiction genre can be traced to its reconciliation of the traditional and the modern. In "The Shoe," Huo Sang solves the case with careful reasoning, while "The Other Photograph" and "On the Huangpu" blend this reasoning with a sensationalism reminiscent of traditional Chinese fiction. "The Odd Tenant" and "The Examination Paper" also demonstrate the folly of first impressions. "At the Ball" and "Cat’s-Eye" feature the South-China Swallow, a master thief who, like other outlaws in traditional tales, steals only from the rich and powerful. "One Summer Night" clearly shows Cheng’s strategy of captivating his Chinese readers with recognizably native elements even as he espouses more globalized views of truth and justice.