Description
Accessible exploration of Sherlock Holmes and his relationship to late-Victorian culture as well as his ongoing significance and popularity.
About the Author
Janice M. Allan is Associate Dean Academic, at the School of Arts and Media, University of Salford. She has published widely on nineteenth-century popular fiction as well as constructions of gender and literary value and is Executive Editor of Clues: A Journal of Detection. Christopher Pittard is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth. He is the author of Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction (2011), and numerous articles and chapters on Victorian popular culture and detective fiction.
Reviews
'An exceptional bibliography completes this volume, which will be particularly useful for beginning Holmesians ... Recommended.' B. Diemert, Choice
'... a welcome and important contribution, and it is attractively produced ... I look forward to engaging with this volume both in my scholarship and in my teaching.' Tom Ue, Victorian Studies
Book Information
ISBN 9781107155855
Author Janice M. Allan
Format Hardback
Page Count 284
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 580g
Dimensions(mm) 235mm * 156mm * 18mm