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Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays / Edition 1

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ISBN-10:: 0312089457
ISBN-13:: 9780312089450
Pub. Date:: 11/15/1993
Publisher:: Bedford/St. Martin's

ISBN-10:: 0312089457
ISBN-13:: 9780312089450
Pub. Date:: 11/15/1993
Publisher:: Bedford/St. Martin's

Sherlock Holmes: The Major Stories with Contemporary Critical Essays / Edition 1

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Containing fifteen Sherlock Holmes stories, this volume of Sherlock Holmes features concise commentary on how each story relates to the author, the series, and the detective genre as well as nine accompanying essays which reflect the recent critical interest in Holmes and examine the stories from a variety of contemporary critical perspectives.

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ISBN-13:	9780312089450
Publisher:	Bedford/St. Martin's
Publication date:	11/15/1993
Series:	Sherlock Holmes Mystery Series
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	12
Product dimensions:	5.55(w) x 8.25(h) x 1.00(d)

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Arthur Conan Doyle and Sherlock Holmes: Biographical and Critical Contexts

PART I. THE MAJOR SHERLOCK HOLMES STORIES

From A Study in Scarlet
A Scandal in Bohemia
The Red-headed League
A Case of Identity
The Boscombe Valley Mystery
The Man with the Twisted Lip
The Blue Carbuncle
The Speckled Band
Silver Blaze
The Musgrave Ritual
The Final Problem
The Empty House
The Dancing Men
Charles Augustus Milverton
The Second Stain

PART II. CONTEMPORARY CRITICAL ESSAYS

Martin Priestman, Sherlock Holmes—The Series
Peter Brooks, Reading for the Plot
Gian Paolo Caprettini, Sherlock Holmes: Ethics, Logic, and the Mask
John A. Hodgson, The Recoil of The Speckled Band: Detective Story and Detective Discourse
Alastair Fowler, Sherlock Holmes and the Adventure of the Dancing Men and Women
Stephen Knight, The Case of the Great Detective
Catherine Belsey, Deconstructing the Text: Sherlock Holmes
Rosemary Hennessy and Rajeswari Mohan, The Speckled Band: The Construction of Woman in a Popular Text of Empire
Audrey Jaffe, Detecting the Beggar: Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry Mayhew, and The Man with the Twisted Lip

Appendices
A Chronology of Arthur Conan Doyle
Doyles Favorite Sherlock Holmes Stories
Sherlock Holmes on Film
Select Bibliography

Index

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