TY - GEN T1 - The critical reception of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle : Sherlock Holmes and beyond T2 - Literary criticism in perspective. A1 - Mazzeno, Laurence W. LA - English PP - Rochester, New York PB - Camden House YR - 2023 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_dda_on1357153958 AB - "Twenty-first-century readers, television viewers, and moviegoers know Arthur Conan Doyle as the creator of Sherlock Holmes, the world's most recognizable fictional detective. Holmes's enduring popularity has kept Conan Doyle in the public eye. However, Holmes has taken on a life of his own, generating a steady stream of critical commentary, while Conan Doyle's other works are slighted or ignored. Yet the Holmes stories make up only a small portion of Conan Doyle's published work, which includes mainstream and historical fiction; history; drama; medical, spiritualist, and political tracts; and even essays on photography. When Doyle published - whatever the subject - his contemporaries took note. Yet, outside of the fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, until recently relatively little has been done to analyze the reception Conan Doyle's work received during his lifetime and since his death. This book examines both academic and popular assessments of Conan Doyle's work, giving pride of place to the Holmes stories and their many adaptations for print, visual, and online media, but attending to his other contributions to turn-of-the-twentieth-century culture as well. The availability of periodicals and newspapers online makes it possible to develop an assessment of Conan Doyle's (and Sherlock Holmes's) reputation among a wider readership and viewership, thus allowing for development of a broader and more accurate portrait of Doyle's place in literary and cultural history"-- OP - 304 CN - PR4624 .M18 2023 SN - 1800102569 SN - 9781800102576 SN - 1800102577 SN - 9781800102569 SN - 9781640140936 KW - Doyle, Arthur Conan, : 1859-1930 : Criticism and interpretation : History. KW - Doyle, Arthur Conan, : 1859-1930 : Appreciation. KW - Doyle, Arthur Conan, : 1859-1930 KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General KW - Art appreciation KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - History KW - Literary criticism KW - Literary criticism. KW - Critiques litteĢraires. ER -