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  • Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction

    by Christopher Pittard ...
    Concentrating on works by authors such as Fergus Hume, Arthur Conan Doyle, Grant Allen, L.T. Meade, and Marie Belloc Lowndes, Christopher Pittard explores the complex relation between the emergence of detective fictions in the 1880s and 1890s and the concept of purity. The centrality of material and moral purity as a theme of the genre, Pittard argues, both reflected and satirised a contemporary ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • The Return of Sherlock Holmes

    by Arthur Conan Doyle, Darryl Jones ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    Arthur Conan Doyle famously killed off Sherlock Holmes in 1893, in the short story 'The Final Problem', but was tempted to bring him back to life ten years later, in the thirteen tales that comprise The Return of Sherlock Holmes. While the outcry that supposedly followed Holmes' death was mostly apocryphal (the claim that readers wore black armbands in mourning has been frequently cited but never ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobooks

    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

    Edited by Janice M. Allan, Christopher Pittard ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Literature
    Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of Victorian anxieties and preoccupations, while on the other shaping ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

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    The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes

    by Janice M. Allan ...
    Narrated by Elizabeth Sastre, John Keating ...

    Unabridged

    11 hours 52 min

    Sherlock Holmes is the most famous fictional detective in history, with a popularity that has never waned since catching the imagination of his late-Victorian readership. This Companion explores Holmes' popularity and his complex relationship to the late-Victorian and modernist periods; on one hand bearing the imprint of a range of Victorian anxieties and preoccupations, while on the other shaping ... Read more

    $25.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

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