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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Arthur Conan Doyle"”.
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'I see you have quite gone over to the supernaturalists' : the spiritual and scientific Arthur Conan Doyle
This thesis examines the mistaken premise that Arthur Conan Doyle abandoned rational enquiry in order to embrace the supernatural, including spiritualism. It explores how Doyle’s diverse fiction and non-fiction define potentially supernatural phenomena as originating in the natural world. …
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The Many Disguises of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Doyle (Sherlock Holmes, Fairies, and the Symbolist Movements in Art and Literature)
… that in addition to the Sherlock Holmes series, Arthur Conan Doyle wrote what he considered a non-fiction book expressing his belief in supernatural fairies. His father, Charles Doyle, shared in this belief and created numerous fairy paintings. Many Victorians believed that Sherlock Holmes was …
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Marked Men: Sport and Masculinity in Victorian Popular Culture, 1866-1904
… Dion Boucicault, and series detective fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle and Arthur Morrison, all recognize that the relationship between men and modern sport is a complex, if fraught one; it produces men who are “marked” in a variety of ways by their sporting experience. This recognition is at the …
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Progress and degeneration: Adventure fiction at the end of the frontier
… Robert Louis Stevenson, Henry Rider Haggard, and Arthur Conan Doyle quickly set out to identify new avenues of exploration. As they did so, they often turned to science as a source of inspiration for identifying new unknowns to explore. Adventure fiction during this period was produced under the …
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Claiming Primordial Landscapes: Science and Imperialism in Turn-of-the-Century Science Fiction Novels
… Jules Verne and <em>The Lost World </em>by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle—using the theories of Edward Said and Michel Foucault. I pay specific attention to the idea of knowledge serving as power in imperial exploration, and how the control of knowledge allows for the empowerment of imperialist …
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The Anti-Marriage Plot in the Age of Informal Empire, 1850-1930
… nido), Thomas Hardy (Tess of the d'Urbervilles), Arthur Conan Doyle (The Lost World), and Benito Lynch (El inglés de los güesos), I find that something curious happens in texts where the marriage plot intersects with the material infrastructures—ports, railroads, storehouses—and spatial or …
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Holmes, Alice, and Ezeulu: Western Rationality in the Context of British Colonialism and Western Modernity
… Carroll and The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle. I then explore the cultural studies critique of that characterization of modernity in the book Arrow of God by Chinua Achebe. Using the theory of Jean Francois Lyotard, Martin Heidegger, and Theodor Adorno, I look at Western …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… Collins, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The study aims to illuminate how vision and reading are tied together and how visual codes are involved in how reading is experienced, conceptualised and carefully regulated. It also suggests how legal …
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The crimes club: the early years of our society
… figures as Professor John Churton Collins, Arthur Diósy, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Sir Edward Marshall Hall, Sir Travers Humphreys, H. B. Irving, Arthur Lambton, William Le Queux, A. E. W. Mason, Samuel Ingleby Oddie, Sir Max Pemberton, Bertram Fletcher Robinson, George R. Sims, Sir Bernard …
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Malory, Chivalric Medievalism, and New Imperialist Masculinity
… Sir Thomas Malory’s fifteenth-century work of Arthurian romance, Le Morte Darthur, underwent significant reevaluation, from being warily considered a trivial, morally problematic text to being hailed as a national epic with a central place in the English canon. This shift in Malory’s status …
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Experiments in Decentralization: Suburban Spaces in the Writings of Early Twentieth-Century British Female Novelists
… especially in detective Gothic stories by Arthur Conan Doyle and Arthur Machen. My other three chapters, which focus, respectively, on the works of Richardson and Woolf, Sackville-West, and Bowen, show how these authors subvert negative stereotypes of suburbia and traditional concepts of …
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Detection and the modern city
… with Edgar Allan Poe and then moving to Arthur Conan Doyle, Dashiell Hammett and finally a number of later writers in the field, all of whom use the city as setting for the narrative, as well as a problematizing element. The city can be a comfortably known environment wherein the …
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‘They all looked such good meat’: Cannibal Metaphors in Early Twentieth Century English Fiction
… at fiction by H. Rider Haggard, Rudyard Kipling, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Joseph Conrad. Cannibalism in these tales makes a textual intervention to consolidate stories of fictional protagonists, thus serving as an imaginative spur to European heroism. Chapter Three, ‘Cannibal Metaphors in D. H. …
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Storytellers in fallen worlds: the metaphysical longings of crime fiction detectives
… Beckett, Edgar Allen Poe, Raymond Chandler, Arthur Conan-Doyle and Agatha Christie imitate, subvert or transform the familiar conventions of the detective novel. In doing so, I offer a slightly subversive reading of Beckett’s Molloy, in which the more intellectual and literary form is used as …
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Unhappy Consciousness: Recognition and Reification in Victorian Fiction
… is a study of the Sherlock Holmes stories by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, in which I read the detective as an exaggerated portrait of the subjective effects of capitalist alienation, a monad whose only intervention in the world is to link predictive results with opaque processes, to "produce" …