Sherlock Holmes codes the social body.
Examines the sources and elaboration of codes in the canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, and considers Doyle's use of various nineteenth-century typologies to give `scientific' support to a particular social order. Focuses on instabilities in the classification of class and...
| Publicado en: | ELH Vol. 57; no. 3; pp. 685 - 709 |
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Fall90
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| Sumario: | Examines the sources and elaboration of codes in the canon of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's character, Sherlock Holmes, and considers Doyle's use of various nineteenth-century typologies to give `scientific' support to a particular social order. Focuses on instabilities in the classification of class and gender that betray Doyle's ideological investments. Doyle's biographer Pierre Nordon and his view of Holmes. |
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