Introduction / Trixy Franke. Last but not least. The Sherlock Holmes' candy castle / Leaticia Kossligk -- Sherlock Holmes and the case of the Victorian woman : the great detective, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and the position of women in late Victorian England / Kim Sirag -- The name is afoot: Victorian, Puritan, and American first names in the Sherlock Holmes canon / Lucy Keifer -- The redeemable colony : Politics, Australia, and "The Boscombe Valley Mystery" / Nadia Bracegirdle ; Character studies. Elementary, my dear Joan / Casey E. Baker -- The adventure of the first friend : Victor Trevor / Anna McDonald -- Why Watson? / Katherine Harkinson -- Sherlock Holmes and women / Sabrina Darendelic -- A study in Mycroft / Sigita Matulaityte ; Sherlock Holmes and emotions : a tricky case. Rational scientist or mad eccentric? An investigation of Sherlock Holmes' character as portrayed in "A Study in Pink" / Eva Kirbach -- A chemical defect found in Sherlock Holmes / Pia Januschka -- Sticks and stones will not break Sherlock Holmes / Henrike Heyn -- Trust issues : a queer view of BBC's Sherlock / Lorrie Kim ; Sherlock Holmes : superhero, angel , or "just" a man?. The hero London deserves : deconstructing the hero-villain dichotomy in Sherlock -- "I may be on the side of angels" : on the use of religious language and motifs in BBC's Sherlock / Katharina Opalka -- The batman : a case of identity / Eric Mittmann ; The evolution of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. Marry him, murder him ... bring him into the 21st century and make Watson a woman / Emily Paine -- No possible solution could be more congenial to me : the evolution of Robert Downey, Jr.'s Sherlock Holmes and his hero's journey / Mary Platt -- Part mind, part heart : the Holmes-Watson partnership in literary and media canon / Kathleen Kennedy -- The man who never lived : an examination of Sherlock Holmes' endurance through time / Kyrie Culp ; The Sherlock Holmes fandom. Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson : anchors in an ever-changing fandom / Victoria Hathaway -- The Reichenbach feels / Shari Laster -- "We solve crimes, I blog about it, he forgets his pants." Balancing traditional and non-traditional Sherlockians in a modern world / Rebecca Stieva ; Last but not least. The magpie's music : BBC Sherlock's "The Reichenbach Fall" and La Gazza Ladra / Rachel Elizabeth TeWinkel -- Sherlock Holmes' candy castle / Trixy Franke.
Summary:
"The latest wave of Sherlockians come to the hobby from a non-traditional perspective. They are the online generation. And yet, their passion for the world's greatest detective is as strong as those in the traditional Sherlockian universe. And now these two worlds come together in this volume"--Publisher's website.
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