Believing and Debunking Spiritualism with Arthur Conan Doyle and Harry Houdini in Tony Oursler's Imponderable

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 243-249
Author(s):  
Christian Sheppard
Keyword(s):  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Harry Houdini

What Is Left of the Genius? Sherlockian Legacy in Contemporary Crime Fiction

2021 ◽  
Vol 36 (1) ◽  
pp. 137-150
Author(s):  
Jacek Mydla
Keyword(s):  
Scientific Knowledge ◽  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Time Of Death ◽  
Sherlock Holmes ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Detective Stories ◽  
Working Out

Arthur Conan Doyle famously popularised science in his series of detective stories by placing its three constitutive elements (scientific knowledge, the collection of evidence, and art of making inferences), in his protagonist Sherlock Holmes. The legacy is present in contemporary crime fiction, but the competencies have been distributed among a group of individuals involved in the investigation. This distribution has affected and changed the position of the detective vis-à-vis scientific expertise. Science, chiefly in the form of different branches of forensics, is as indispensable as the detective, and authors have been working out different ways of making the two work together. As an example of this cooperation, the paper examines Mark Billingham’s 2015 novel Time of Death.

Arthur Conan Doyle and Medical London: Reading the Topography of Round the Red Lamp

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 295-313
Author(s):  
Roger Luckhurst
Keyword(s):  
General Practitioner ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Medical Institutions ◽  
Short Period ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Set Up

This essay explores the short period of time that Arthur Conan Doyle spent between March and June 1891 when he moved his family into rooms in Bloomsbury and took a consulting room near Harley Street in an attempt to set up as an eye specialist. This last attempt to move up the professional hierarchy from general practitioner to specialist tends to be seen as a final impulsive move before Conan Doyle decided to become a full-time writer in June 1891. The essay aims to elaborate a little on the medical contexts for Conan Doyle’s brief spell in London, and particularly to track the medical topography in which he placed himself, situated between the radical, reformist Bloomsbury medical institutions and the fame and riches of the society doctors of Harley Street. These ambivalences are tracked in the medical fiction he published in Round the Red Lamp, his peculiar collection of medical tales and doctoring in 1894.

scholarly journals El crimen en la novela negra latinoamericana. "Entre la fascinación y la memoria"

Poligramas ◽  
2017 ◽  
pp. 75
Author(s):  
James Valderrama Rengifo
Keyword(s):  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Ricardo Piglia ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Abril Rojo ◽  
Novela Negra

En el presente artículo académico se realiza un acercamiento a la novela negra Latinoamérica desde dos perspectivas: la fascinación y la memoria. El artículo establece una secuencia crítica que da cuenta de la evolución del género: sus regularidades y sus cambios  literarios desde Edgar Allan Poe y Arthur Conan Doyle hasta los más destacados representantes del género negro en Latinoamérica, marcando la condición contemporánea de esta apropiación y desarrollo de este tipo de novelas. Posteriormente se postulan las claves de su análisis  tomando referencias obras como Abril rojo del peruano Santiago Roncangliolo, Scorpio City del colombiano Mario Mendoza y Plata quemada de Ricardo Piglia, de Argentina. Estas obras finalmente se proponen como un ejercicio de memoria donde ocurre un choque de ficciones en el que los hechos pasados adquieren un orden distinto porque aparecen otras voces, otros informes, testimonios, otros crímenes, otras víctimas, otros asesinos, otros detectives, etc. En este orden distinto, las marcas previas de la memoria chocan con las marcas nuevas que propone el relato. El centelleo resultante de ese choque de ficciones permite el acceso a otro conocimiento sobre el pasado y sus deudas con el presente y el futuro.

scholarly journals La ficción medieval de Arthur Conan Doyle

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Miralles Pérez
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Fourteenth Century ◽  
Historical Novel ◽  
Edward Iii ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Novela Historica ◽  
Victorian Age

Resumen:A final de la era Victoriana, cuando el nuevo siglo presentaba sus desafíos y rutas de progreso, Arthur Conan Doyle decide revivir la época de Eduardo III y el Príncipe Negro. Su estudio de la caballería y del arquero inglés genera un caudal educativo que dirige hacia los jóvenes y adultos de clase media. La reconstrucción del siglo XIV en The White Company (1891) y Sir Nigel (1906) re fleja su compromiso con el honor y el deber nacional, su manera de ver la historia y la ficción, su disfrute de la aventura y la lucha, y su sentido de humor.Palabras clave: Novela histórica, era Victoriana, siglo XIV, tradiciones nacionales, caballería, masculinidad.Title in English: Medieval fiction in Arthur Conan DoyleAbstract:As the Victorian age neared its end and the new century presented challenges and new courses of progress, Arthur Conan Doyle decided to revive the days of Edward III and the Black Prince. His research into chivalry and the English archer became a source of example and instruction for both young and adult middle class citizens of Britain. In the writing of The White Company (1891) and Sir Nigel (1906), he was led by his commitment to patriotic duty and honour, his consideration of history and fiction, his passion for adventure and fighting, and his sense of humour.Keywords: Historical novel, Victorian age, fourteenth century, national traditions, chivalry, manhood. 

scholarly journals Detecting the Diagnosis: Parasitology, Crime Fiction, and the British Medical Gaze

2021 ◽  
pp. 131-173
Author(s):  
Emilie Taylor-Pirie
Keyword(s):  
Crime Fiction ◽  
Frame Of Reference ◽  
Tropical Medicine ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Popular Imagination ◽  
Medical Gaze ◽  
Cultural Currency ◽  
Arthur Conan Doyle ◽  
Colonial Encounter ◽  
Microscopic World

AbstractIn this chapter, Taylor-Pirie traces the cultural encounters between the parasitologist and the scientific detective in the medico-popular imagination, revealing how such meetings helped to embed the figure of the doctor-detective in public understandings of science. Parasitologists like Ronald Ross and David Bruce were routinely reported in newspapers using detective fiction’s most famous archetype: Sherlock Holmes, a frame of reference that blurred the boundaries between romance and reality. Recognising the continued cultural currency of Holmesian detection in clinical and diagnostic medicine, she re-immerses the ‘great detective’ and his creator, Arthur Conan Doyle, in the literary-historical contexts of the fin de siècle, demonstrating how material and rhetorical entanglements between criminality, tropical medicine, and empire constructed the microscopic world as new kind of colonial encounter.

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