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This book of interdisciplinary essays serves to situate the original Sherlock Holmes, and his various adaptations, in a contemporary cultural context. This collection is prompted by three main and related questions: firstly, why is Sherlock Holmes such an enduring and ubiquitous cultural icon; secondly, why is it that Sherlock Holmes, nearly 130 years after his birth, is enjoying such a spectacular renaissance; and, thirdly, what sort of communities, imagined or otherwise, have arisen around this figure since the most recent resurrections of Sherlock Holmes by popular media? Covering various media and genres (TV, film, literature, theatre) and scholarly approaches, this comprehensive collection offers cogent answers to these questions Introduction -- "All that matters is the work": text and adaptation in Sherlock -- Clients who disappear and colleagues who cannot compete: female characters in the BBC's Sherlock -- "I, too, mourn the loss": Mrs. Hudson and the absence of Sherlock Holmes -- The trickster, remixed: Sherlock Holmes as master of disguise -- Holmes and his Boswell in cosplay and roleplay -- A "horrific breakdown of reason": Holmes and the postcolonial anti-detective novel, Lost Ground -- Sherlock Holmes and the fiction of agency -- The savage subtext of The Hound of the Baskervilles -- Holmes into challenger: the dark investigator -- Modernizing Holmes: location and bringing Sherlock into the twenty-first century
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