...Douglas Mao McCREA BARRY , In the Company of Strangers: Family and Narrative in Dickens, Conan Doyle, Joyce, and Proust ( New York : Columbia UP , 2011 ), pp. 265 , paper, $27.50 . © 2013 by Novel, Inc. 2013 Duke University Press Works Cited Conan Doyle Arthur...

... HOKc'rJ is a Ph.D. candidate in English at The Johns Hophns University. Her dissertatron examines the representation of the detail in Jane Austen, George Eliot, and Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories. EUGENIA ZURmKI is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Arkansas. Her...

... of imperialism is gendered, Krebs anchors her analysis in a nuanced and evidentially rich account of the concentration camp controversy (whose two central protagonists were Emily Hobhouse and Millicent Fawcett) or, in a different chapter, the debate between Arthur Conan Doyle and W.T. Stead over...

... Ackroyd . New York : Berkley , 2004 . Daston Lorraine , and Galison Peter . Objectivity . Brooklyn : Zone , 2007 . Doyle Sir Arthur Conan . The Complete Sherlock Holmes . 2 vols. Garden City : Doubleday , 1930 . Eco Umberto , and Sebeok Thomas , eds...

...). The fourth chapter argues that Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes should be re- garded as an "imperial immune system," ridding England of "microbes"-those who oppose "the imperial body": foreigners, criminals, the lower classes, women; in short, anyone who poses a threat to respectability...

... there is no neat end to this process, since the negotiation of na- tional identity in an imperial culture, like other kinds of domestic work, is never done. Reitz shows that articulating the relationship between imperial core and periphery continues to be the project of Arthur Conan Doyle and Rudyard...

... sisters (Emily's Wuthering Heights , Charlotte's Jane Eyre , and Anne's Agnes Grey ); Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Great Expectations ; George Eliot's Middlemarch ; Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd (with passages from Tess of the D'Urbervilles and Jude the Obscure ); Arthur Conan...

... that makes the interchangeable, “blurry and illegible” hand the proof of racial identity (32). Arthur Conan Doyle's “Story of the Brown Hand” literalizes this figurative interchangeability. The narrator is haunted by the ghost of an Afghan soldier to whom he promised his amputated hand after death...

... focus on individual novels (by Olive Schreiner, Thomas Hardy, George Gissing, and Sarah Grand), but one chapter treats the representation of Afghanistan in the British imaginary (exploring speeches by Gladstone, an adventure novel by G. A. Henty, and Arthur Conan Doyle’s Study in Scarlet...

... aesthetics and spectatorship in Henry James and Arthur Conan Doyle, competing utopias by William Morris and General William Booth, and the modernist city fictions of Joseph Conrad and Virginia Woolf. A short conclusion on contemporary British literature and film stretches her genealogy of “London...

.... If, as Kennedy asserts, Freud “redefined medical narrative” (168), how and for whom? This claim seems at odds with the assertion that Freud’s case histories marginalized him from mainstream medicine. Perhaps, too, someone like Arthur Conan Doyle, himself invested in the case history, might offer another...

... chief C.F.G Masterman invited to his office at Wellington House the elite of English letters, among thn J.M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, Robert Bridges, G.K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle and on through the alphabet to Israel Zangwill. The purpose of the meeting was to devise a new approach...

.... A case in point: “Searching” ends with glimpses of Amazon reviews of Bartlett's . “Counting” is deliberately eclectic in method and in types of texts: Treasure Island ; less-known fiction by Arthur Conan Doyle; Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan of the Apes , where Tarzan's “quinary numeracy,” based...

... Outka intriguingly terms the “consolation spectrum” of “post-pandemic spiritualism” (200) . Nimbly attending to narratives that feature ameliorating returns of the dead, she considers Arthur Conan Doyle's The Land of Mist (1926), a novel whose effort to “reimagine pandemic bodies and the sense...

... Anthropocene Jack London planetarity H. G. Wells We are assisting at a tremendous and awful function. It is, in my opinion, the end of the world. —Arthur Conan Doyle Long eclipsed by the discourse of globalization, planetarity now has entered the light of critical recognition. And just in time...

... photographs of Peenemünde” (726). It’s as if the Asmodeus flight, the nineteenth-century realist trope that pictured omniscience as a form of benevolent aerial trespass in writers from Thomas Carlyle to Nathaniel Hawthorne to Charles Dickens to Arthur Conan Doyle, had finally found its technological...

..., Technology, and Economic Growth . Ed. A. E. Musson. London: Methuen, 1972 . 148 -67. Conrad , Joseph . Collected Letters . Ed. Frederick R. Karl and Laurence Davies. 9 vols. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983-2007 . Doyle , Arthur Conan . The Complete Sherlock Holmes . 2 vols. New York...

... “Tales of Ratiocination” influenced writers such as AgathaC hristie and Arthur Conan Doyle. These stories feature the Parisian sleuth C. Auguste Dupin, whose near-superhuman mental abilities include two key characteristics. First are his powers of observation; noth- ing, not even what seems...

... incompatible ways” (128). The form of the novel itself remains both generically the same, in that it retains such features as “the clue” that marks successful variations of detective fiction, and remarkably different, insofar as the clue can be decoded only by the exceptional protagonist of Arthur Conan...

... New Monthly Magazine 6 . 35 ( April 1853 ): 670 – 89 . ———. Our Mutual Friend . 1865 . Ed. Cotsell Michael . Oxford : Oxford UP , 1998 . Doyle Sir Arthur Conan . “A Case of Identity.” Adventures of Sherlock Holmes . 1892 . New York : Quality Paperback Club , 1994...