No Ghosts Need Apply: Gothic Influences in Crimiinal Science, the Detective and Doyle's Holmesian Canon

by Camilla del Grazia

This innovative new work highlights how the presence of Gothic elements in the Holmesian Canon problematizes the normative action of the detective. It examines the anxieties which accompanied the changing universe of Victorian and Edwardian society in the context of the development of criminal science. Recently the figure of Sherlock Holmes has been the object of countless re-writings, re-interpretations, and adaptations in a vast array of media including...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1911454897
• ISBN13: 9781911454892
• Release Date: November 2020
• Publisher: Edward Everett Root
• Length: 1 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"