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*APPROVED* A literary history of Arthur Conan Doyle's work with the Strand Magazine in the twentieth century We know Arthur Conan Doyle as the stereotypically 'Victorian' author of the Sherlock Holmes stories which, in the lavishly-illustrated pages of the Strand Magazine, captivated and defined the late nineteenth-century marketplace for popular fiction and magazine publishing. This book tells the story of that relationship and the aftermath of its enormous success. Here you can discover the Conan Doyle who used his public platform to fight for divorce reform, the rights of colonised peoples, State welfare programmes, the abolition of blood sports, and who, in his last years, foresaw the coming of the Second World War, the Cold War and the age of weapons of mass destruction. The twentieth-century Conan Doyle was not a man with his eyes fixed upon the past but determinedly responding to a changing world with as much vigour and commitment as any modernist writer. Key Features - Original approach to Conan Doyle as a 'popular modernist' - Analyses many forgotten and neglected novels, short stories, letters, pamphlets and non-fiction pieces, many of which have gone entirely unremarked within existing criticism - Provides new periodical context by using forgotten material from the Strand to situate the work of Conan Doyle (and other popular writers from the period) within their historical moment - Draws on original research into the artistic and business history of the Strand, its writers and its employees Jonathan Cranfield is a Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University.
About the author
Jonathan Cranfield is Senior Lecturer in English Literature and Cultural History at Liverpool John Moores University. He is the author of
Twentieth-Century Victorian: Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, 1891-1930 (EUP, 2016), co-editor of Fran Phenomena:
Sherlock Holmes (Intellect, 2013) and has published various peer-reviewed articles on late-Victorian periodical culture, popular fiction and early cinema.
Summary
Tells of the relationship between Arthur Conan Doyle and the Strand Magazine, the aftermath of the success of Sherlock Holmes and the impact of that on both author and publication as they moved into the early twentieth century.
