What is it about?
The chapter presents an overview of the continued yet changing presence and appeal of the figure of the Victorian detective, real and fictional, including the appearance of Edgar Allan Poe’s Auguste Dupin (1841) and factual developments, like the establishment of the Detective Department (1842) with its vibrant depictions by Charles Dickens.
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Why is it important?
Apart from the aforementioned overview, the chapter explains the ubiquitous absence of Victorian female detectives from the collection and provides possible reasons behind the renaissance of Victorian and Victorian-like sleuths.
Perspectives
Sherlock Holmes seems to have enjoyed a monopoly on Victorian fictional detection and recent reappearances of other nineteenth-century investigators suggest that audiences are hungry for more. The following chapters should provide them with some critical food for thought.
Dr. Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko
University of Warsaw
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This page is a summary of: Beyond Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction, January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-69311-8_1.
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