Arthur Conan Doyle's Art of Fiction: A Revaluation (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781527511576)

This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead of following new historicists and postcolonialists and asking what Conan Doyleâ (TM)s fiction reveals about its author and what it tells us about Victorian attitudes to crime, class, Empire and gender, this provocative and convincingly argued literary study shifts the critical emphasis to the neglected art of the novels, tales and stories. It demonstrates through close reading that they can be read the same way as canonical literary fiction. Unapologetically polemical and written in an accessible, jargon-free style, this book will stimulate debate and provoke counterarguments, but most importantly it will send readers, both within and outside the academy, back to the fiction with heightened understanding and renewed pleasure. At a time when evaluation has virtually disappeared from literary studies, this iconoclastic book returns it to the centre.

Author: Nils Clausson
ISBN-10: 152751157X
ISBN-13: 9781527511576
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/09/2018
Pages: 402
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.30lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.70w x 1.10d