What is it about?
The volume presents 6 texts by scholars from Poland, Hungary, and the USA on recent rewritings of Victorian detectives, real and fictional: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives.
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Why is it important?
In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives’ importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era.
Perspectives
I hope the studies by Justyna Jajszczok, Jacek Mydla, Dorota Babilas, Brigitta Hudácskó, Robert Perret, and Barbara Braid will help re-introduce other Victorian detectives as valid and highly rewarding subjects of both pop-cultural and scholarly interest. Bucket, Cuff, Reid, Gregson, Low, and the psychiatrists turned sleuths may be less popular or lesser-known, but are no less intriguing than the Great Detective himself.
Dr. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
University of Warsaw
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This page is a summary of: Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69311-8.
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