Author: Catherine WynnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Colonial Conan Doyle
Author: Catherine WynnePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Gothic revival (Literature)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Colonial Conan Doyle
Author: Catherine WynnePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313013411
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
Arthur Conan Doyle is often perceived as the quintessential Englishman, patriotically devoted to the Crown and the empire's defender and apologist. But such a relegation is both limiting and simplistic. Born in Scotland to Irish Catholic parents, Doyle's heritage is complex. His paternal grandfather, John Doyle, had originally left Ireland for London in the early 19th century; his father was committed to the cause of Irish separatism; and his uncle resigned from his position as main cartoonist for ^IPunch^R after the journal launched an attack on the Pope. Consequently, British imperialism, Irish nationalism, and Catholic allegiance converge uneasily in his works. This book examines the resulting tensions between imperialism and colonialism in his writings. It argues that his thematic obsessions with topography, race, psyche, and sexuality stem from his ambivalence toward his own heritage. The volume repositions Doyle and redresses current critical approaches that have seen him solely as the advocate of empire and have ignored his colonial background. It explores how his fictions occur within a colonial context, the complexity of which is evident in gothic tropes of shifting landscapes, disguised criminalities, spiritualism, and sexual anomalies and conflicts.
Colonialism and the Emergence of Science Fiction
Author: John RiederPublisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819573809
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
This groundbreaking study explores science fiction's complex relationship with colonialism and imperialism. In the first full-length study of the subject, John Rieder argues that the history and ideology of colonialism are crucial components of science fiction's displaced references to history and its engagement in ideological production. With original scholarship and theoretical sophistication, he offers new and innovative readings of both acknowledged classics and rediscovered gems. Rider proposes that the basic texture of much science fiction—in particular its vacillation between fantasies of discovery and visions of disaster—is established by the profound ambivalence that pervades colonial accounts of the exotic “other.” Includes discussion of works by Edwin A. Abbott, Edward Bellamy, Edgar Rice Burroughs, John W. Campbell, George Tomkyns Chesney, Arthur Conan Doyle, H. Rider Haggard, Edmond Hamilton, W. H. Hudson, Richard Jefferies, Henry Kuttner, Alun Llewellyn, Jack London, A. Merritt, Catherine L. Moore, William Morris, Garrett P. Serviss, Mary Shelley, Olaf Stapledon, and H. G. Wells.
The Crime of the Congo
Author: Lot No. 249
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher: Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN: 8726586738
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Smith, a University of Oxford athlete, witnesses strange things. Edward, a student in Egyptology, collects ancient artefacts, a mummy as well. Not only does he collect them, but Smith suspects that Edward is trying to reanimate the mummy. His suspicions grow bigger when he sees the mummy disappear and then reappear. Will Smith confront Edward and what will follow after that? Is it actually possible to reanimate an artefact or it is simply fruit of imagination? Who will make it out alive – Smith, Edward, or the mummy? "Lot No. 249" holds the answers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) was born in Scotland and studied medicine at the University of Edinburgh. After his studies, he worked as a ship’s surgeon on various boats. During the Second Boer War, he was an army doctor in South Africa. When he came back to the United Kingdom, he opened his own practice and started writing crime books. He is best known for his thrilling stories about the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. He published four novels and more than 50 short-stories starring the detective and Dr Watson, and they play an important role in the history of crime fiction. Other than the Sherlock Holmes series, Doyle wrote around thirty more books, in genres such as science-fiction, fantasy, historical novels, but also poetry, plays, and non-fiction.
Something of Themselves
Author: Sarah LeFanuPublisher:
ISBN: 0197501443
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 413
Book Description
A thoughtful biography tracing the paths of three literary greats through a turbulent period in Britain's imperial history.
Writing the Urban Jungle
Author: Joseph McLaughlinPublisher: University of Virginia Press
ISBN: 9780813919720
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Much has been written about the effects of British culture on colonized people, but this study suggests that the influence worked both ways. Focusing on the relationship between literature and metropolitan culture, it discusses the cultural confusion caused by bringing the foreign home.
Memories and Adventures
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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Our American Adventure
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Spiritualism
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
The Refugees
Author: Arthur Conan DoylePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Canada
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description