Overview
- Shifts the focus on Victorian detectives from Sherlock Holmes to a variety of other popular figures that have received far less critical attention in the contemporary period
- Discusses both classic and lesser-known figures to detail the breadth of impact each has had on contemporary adaptation
- Offers insight into a variety of adaptations and types of legacies that the different figures have experienced, ranging from television to theater and beyond
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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.
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Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture
Book Subtitle: Beyond Sherlock Holmes
Editors: Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69311-8
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-69310-1Published: 14 December 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-69311-8Published: 28 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 116
Topics: Popular Culture , Adaptation Studies, Genre, Nineteenth-Century Literature