... Victorian statistical innovations that remain central to machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) today. Doyle’s generically split novella shows that the charismatic detective who dominates its first part is the merely partial virtuoso of a limited form. As such, A Study in Scarlet invites us...

... detail at Vanity Fair, which Thackeray of course illustrated himself, and at The Newcomes, which was illustrated by Richard Doyle. These two examples enable us to survey the rather different problems addressed by an author/ illustrator and by an illustrator distinct from an author, however...

... authors (in my case, more or less like Arthur Conan Doyle), but not quite, and who interest me because, from what I have seen of that for- gotten 99 percent, they seem to be the largest contingent of the “great unread,” as Cohen calls it. And that’s really my...

... HOLMES BORROWS A PLOT By JOHN ROBERTMOO RE^ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, experimenting with many kinds of fiction, frequently attempted to alter the pattern which his admirers expected of him. But his was perhaps the most exacting reading public which has shaped...

...Juliet Shields Freedom's Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1640 – 1940 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. University of Washington 2009 Juliet Shields is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington...

... . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. Freedom’s Empire explores the origins and development of “Atlantic moder- nity,” a condition in which liberty is understood as “an interior, racial inheri- tance” that belongs to some peoples more than others (4). Laura Doyle...

... in Atlantic Modernity, 1 6 4 0  –  1 9 4 0 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. Freedom’s Empire explores the origins and development of “Atlantic moder- nity,” a condition in which liberty is understood as “an interior, racial inheri- tance” that belongs to some...

... in Atlantic Modernity, 1 6 4 0  –  1 9 4 0 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. Freedom’s Empire explores the origins and development of “Atlantic moder- nity,” a condition in which liberty is understood as “an interior, racial inheri- tance” that belongs to some...

... 10.1215/00267929-2008-041 Shields  Review 275 Freedom’s Empire: Race and the Rise of the Novel in Atlantic Modernity, 1 6 4 0  –  1 9 4 0 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. Freedom’s Empire explores the origins...

... in Atlantic Modernity, 1 6 4 0  –  1 9 4 0 . By Laura Doyle. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2008. xii + 578 pp. Freedom’s Empire explores the origins and development of “Atlantic moder- nity,” a condition in which liberty is understood as “an interior, racial inheri- tance” that belongs to some...

... “The Slaughterhouse of Literature” appeared (2000), he had arrived at a question that might be empirically tested: why did Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories survive their many competitors in the Strand magazine in the 1880s? Moretti proposes that it was because Doyle developed the clue in its canonical...

... original work of postsecular criticism. 4 Secondary readings here include Contino 2016 , “Roman Catholicism,” helpful for thinking about the legacy of Doyle’s childhood Catholicism and for the role of Dante in Lord Peter Wimsey’s book collection; Knight 2009 : chap. 2, “Beings in Relation...

... comes off as a vapour from our bodies Stead (Spirit), LqeEternal, 87. 90 MLQl March iggg Arthur Conan Doyle, Lord Hugh Dowding, Sir Oliver Lodge, William Butler Yeats-yet mediumship itself remained very much the province of women, for it offered one...

... Jakobson and the Study of Rhyme.” Campbell, Jane, and James Doyle (editors). The Practical Vision: Essays in English Literature in Honour of Flora Roy. Waterloo, Ont., Canada: Wilfrid Laurier Uni- versity Press, 1978. xvi + 163 pp. $7.50. James Doyle, “Introduction”; “Notes...

... a number of scholars whose learning in the world of manuscripts far surpasses my own, among them Ian Doyle, Tony Edwards, Jeremy Griffiths, Ralph Hanna, Henry Hargreaves, Malcolm Parkes, Michael Samuels, Michael Seymour, Jeremy Smith, Toshi Takamiya, and Linda Voigts. I would particularly wish...

... subfield of modernist studies, the traditional aesthetic, geographic, and historical boundaries of research are, more often than not, held up as straw men, the “old” modernist studies from which the new ought to signal its distance (see Doyle and Winkiel 1994 ; Mao and Walkowitz 2008 ; Wollaeger 2012...

... & Noble, 1969. xxx 4- 332 pp. $8.00. Doyle, John Robert, Jr. William Plomer. New York: Twayne, WAS 54, 1969. xiv + 183 pp. Doyle, Paul A. Sean O’FaoZain. New York: Twayne, TEAS 70, 1968. 156 pp. Ehrenpreis, Anne Henry (editor). Charlotte Smith: “The Old Manor House.” London, New...

..., and The Newcomes, ed. Andrew Sanders (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), chap. 6, both illustrated by Richard Doyle. MLQ 62.2-01 Dillon 4/24/01 10:40 AM Page 101 Dillon ❙ Victorian Interior 101 where clubmen place themselves to be seen...

... Eliot’s Creative Method. Urbana : University of Illinois Studies in Language and Literature, Vol. 47, 1960. Pp. ix + 134. $3.00, paper; $4.00, cloth. Cronin, Grover, Jr., and Paul A. Doyle (editors). Pope’s Iliad: An Examina- tion by William Melmoth. Washington, D.C. : Catholic University...

....) The Sherlock Holmes fantasy that a near-omniscient detective can uncover people’s inner thoughts through endless study of their appearances remains impossible; at the other extreme from Arthur Conan Doyle is Walt Whitman’s determination in his poetry to keep people at a distance, blessing them only from afar...