Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes

by Lucyna Krawczyk-Zywko (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783319693101
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	11/28/2017
Edition description:	1st ed. 2017
Pages:	116
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko is Assistant Professor at the Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland. Her main research area is contemporary reimaginings of Victorian villains and detectives, historic and fictional. She has published primarily on Sherlock Holmes and Jack the Ripper.

Table of Contents

1. Beyond Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction (Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko)
2. Inspector Bucket: A Dickensian Detective (Justyna Jajszczok)
3. Sergeant Cuff and Spectacles of Detective Intrusion in The Moonstone and Its Adaptations (Jacek Mydla)
4. Edmund Reid and the Representation of the Middle Class in Ripper Street (Dorota Babilas)
5. The Case of the Two Gregsons: From A Study in Scarlet to Elementary (Brigitta Hudácskó)
6. Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist (Robert Perret)
7. A Psychiatrist as a Detective: Laszlo Kreizler, Stratham Younger, and Max Liebermann (Barbara Braid)