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Nils Clausson : Arthur Conan Doyle's Art of Fiction: A Revaluation

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018

ISBN 9781527511576

8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Q3 - A hardcover book in very good condition that has some lightly bumped corners, some scattered light scratches and rubbing, light discoloration and shelf wear with no dust jacket. Although not marked in any way, this copy comes from the personal collection of Otto Penzler, legendary editor and founder of the Mysterious Press, an award-winning icon in the genre. 8.25"x6", 384 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. This groundbreaking book rescues Arthur Conan Doyle from the sub-literary category of popular fiction and from the myth of Sherlock Holmes. Instead of following new historicists and postcolonialists and asking what Conan Doyle's fiction reveals about its author and what it tells us about Victorian attitudes to crime, class, Empire and gender, this provocative and convincingly argued literary study shifts the critical emphasis to the neglected art of the novels, tales and stories. It demonstrates through close reading that they can be read the same way as canonical literary fiction. Unapologetically polemical and written in an accessible, jargon-free style, this book will stimulate debate and provoke counterarguments, but most importantly it will send readers, both within and outside the academy, back to the fiction with heightened understanding and renewed pleasure. At a time when evaluation has virtually disappeared from literary studies, this iconoclastic book returns it to the centre.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: No Jacket

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