What is it about?
An examination of the relationship between the Granada Television series of adaptations of the adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the ideology of 'Thatcherism' in the last decades of the twentieth century.
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Why is it important?
It is the first critical examination of the Granada television adaptations of Sherlock Holmes in relation to their cultural and political contexts.
Perspectives
The author links Samuel Smiles's Victorian idea of 'Self-Help' and later twentieth-century Thatcherism in ways that enlightens both the historical and contemporary contexts.
Neil McCaw
University of Winchester
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This page is a summary of: Sherlock Holmes and a Politics of Adaptation, Springer Science + Business Media,
DOI: 10.1057/9781137291561.0007.
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