The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: Detecting Social Order

by Rosemary Jann

Book Overview

This is a study of the Sherlock Holmes canon: it is a detailed social history, a consideration of Doyle's new genre of detective fiction as a response to the scientific rationalism of the late 19th century. For the first time in the history of English literature readers have been given a moral agent, in the form of Mr Holmes, who can actually prove that he is right.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0805783857
• ISBN13: 9780805783858
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Twayne Publishers
• Length: 150 Pages
• Weight: 0.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.5"