Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes

by Neil McCaw

Overview

Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a variety of information about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories, as both narratives and also cultural phenomena. The volume will help readers look deeper into those stories and the meanings of the various reference points within them, as well as achieving a deeper understanding of the range of contexts of Holmes, Conan Doyle, and detective fiction as a genre. This book examines the broad global Sherlock Holmes phenomenon related to the ways in which the stories have been adapted into a range of other media, as well as the cultural status of Holmes all over the world.

Historical Dictionary of Sherlock Holmes contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 1,000 cross-referenced entries that contain detailed examinations of the themes and features of the 60 stories that make up the Sherlock Holmes canon. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781538169506
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	03/01/2022
Series:	Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts
Pages:	450
Product dimensions:	6.04(w) x 9.07(h) x 1.28(d)

About the Author

Neil McCaw is Professor of Victorian Literature & Culture at the University of Winchester. He has published widely on various aspects of the C19th, crime and detective fiction, adaptation, the Digital Humanities, and television and film adaptation. He has been the Academic Director of the Arthur Conan Doyle Collection, Lancelyn Green Bequest, one of the largest Holmes/Conan Doyle archives in the world, since 2005.

Table of Contents

Editor’s Foreword

Preface

Chronology

Introduction

The Dictionary

Bibliography

About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Professor McCaw, who teaches Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Winchester, has just produced an eminently readable compendium on 'the most portrayed human character' [Guinness World Records, 2012, quoted p. xiii]. The 'Dictionary' proper, organised in the classic A-Z way, is accompanied by an academic critical apparatus of the highest interest, the most innovative element being the 13-page 'Introduction' which strives to discover and explain why Sherlock Holmes 'has transcended his stories and taken on a life of its own' [2].

-- "Cercles"

From the Publisher

Professor McCaw, who teaches Victorian Literature and Culture at the University of Winchester, has just produced an eminently readable compendium on ‘the most portrayed human character’ [Guinness World Records, 2012, quoted p. xiii]. The ‘Dictionary’ proper, organised in the classic A-Z way, is accompanied by an academic critical apparatus of the highest interest, the most innovative element being the 13-page ‘Introduction’ which strives to discover and explain why Sherlock Holmes ‘has transcended his stories and taken on a life of its own’ [2].

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