Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes
Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes by Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
English | 11 Feb. 2018 | ISBN: 3319693107 | 132 Pages | PDF | 1.57 MB
English | 11 Feb. 2018 | ISBN: 3319693107 | 132 Pages | PDF | 1.57 MB
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.