Victorian Detectives in Contemporary Culture: Beyond Sherlock Holmes

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In contrast to the main body of current Victorian detective criticism, which tends to concentrate on Conan Doyle’s creation and only uses other detectives as a backdrop, the texts gathered in this volume examine various contemporary ways of (re)presenting real and fictional detectives that originated in or are otherwise associated with that era: Inspector Bucket, Sergeant Cuff, Inspector Reid, Tobias Gregson, Flaxman Low, and psychiatrists as detectives. Such a collection allows for a critical re-assessment of both the detectives’ importance to the Victorian literature and culture and provides a better basis for understanding the reasons behind their contemporary returns, re-imaginings and re-creations, contributing to the creation of a base for further cultural and critical works dealing with reworkings of the Victorian era. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Beyond Sherlock Holmes: An Introduction (Lucyna Krawczyk-Żywko)....Pages 1-11 Inspector Bucket: A Dickensian Detective (Justyna Jajszczok)....Pages 13-25 Sergeant Cuff and Spectacles of Detective Intrusion in The Moonstone and Its Adaptations (Jacek Mydla)....Pages 27-41 Edmund Reid and the Representation of the Middle Class in Ripper Street (Dorota Babilas)....Pages 43-56 The Case of the Two Gregsons: From A Study in Scarlet to Elementary (Brigitta Hudácskó)....Pages 57-76 Flaxman Low, Occult Psychologist (Robert Perret)....Pages 77-90 A Psychiatrist as a Detective: Laszlo Kreizler, Stratham Younger, and Max Liebermann (Barbara Braid)....Pages 91-112 Back Matter ....Pages 113-116