André, Didierjean, and Gobet Fernand. "Sherlock Holmes: An Experts View of Expertise." British Journal of Psychology 99.1 (2008): 109-25. Web. 16 Apr. 2012.
This article explores the Sherlock Holmes’ role as an expert in his field of detection and the methods which make him such an uncontested success in his role of detective. The article focuses a lot on contemporary processes associated with experts and compares them with Sherlock Holmes’ position as an expert, even as a fictional character, and the article also presents some potential problems which can occur or which have not been adequately researched related to this level of expertise.
Edwards, Owen Dudley. “Doyle, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan (1859–1930).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Ed. H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. Oxford: OUP, 2004. Web. 13 Apr. 2012
This article is a resource into the personal history of Holmes’s creator, Arthur Conan Doyle. It gives a personal history of Doyle’s life and development as a writer, but focuses mostly on his success with the Sherlock Holmes series and the connection between the Sherlock Holmes stories and Doyle’s own personal history.
Fillingham, Lydia Alix. "The Colorless Skein of Life: Threats to the Private Sphere in Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet." ELH 56.3 (1989): 667-88.Web. 13 Apr. 2012.
This article describes the process of detection which Holmes uses in investigating the crime scene and compares Holmes’s method to the other police. Fillingham’s ultimate observation is on Holmes ability to expand the crime scene to originally unseen or unrecognized elements is what allows for the detective to use clues and detection to expose all elements to a person’s life and character, thus drawing detection into the previously private sphere of a person’s life.
Haynsworth, Leslie. "Sensational Adventures: Sherlock Holmes and His Generic Past." English Literature in Transition (1880-1920) 44.4 (2001): 459-85. Web. 15 Apr. 2012.
Haynsworth’s article focuses on the Sherlock Holmes stories as a genre and exposes the many aspects or qualities of Doyle’s work which allow for it to fit within certain literary styles like the adventure narrative or the sensational novel. The author relates the Holmes stories to other Victorian works being written around this time and explains how Doyle’s writing was both influenced by these writings as well as serving to be an influence on further detective stories through the Victorian period and beyond.
Krasner, James. “Arthur Conan Doyle as Doctor and Writer.” Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature33. 4 (2000 Dec): 19-34. Web. 15 Apr 2012.
Krasner’s article focuses more on the author of A Study in Scarlet and explores how Doyle’s former profession as a doctor largely influences his career as a writer. The author explores Doyle’s evident interest in medicine and how medicine is frequently referenced and used within Doyle’s writings. The article most focuses on the doctor and patient relationship which Doyle is very familiar with as a doctor and how that unique relationship is reflected in Holmes’s relationship with others as well.
Loader, Colin. "Conan Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet: A Study in Irony." CLIO: A Journal of Literature, History, and the Philosophy ofHistory 19.2 (1990): 147-59. Web.13 Apr. 2012.
Colin Loader’s article focuses entirely on the present irony in Doyle’s A Study in Scarlet and most particularly in the character of Holmes. The author focuses most on the irony of Holmes’s misplaced style of detection as well as the unique dual narrative in the novel, which creates a sort of irony in the contrasting styles of representational storytelling.
Neill, Anna. “The Savage Genius of Sherlock Holmes.” Victorian Literature and Culture 37 (2009): 611–626. Web. 16 Apr. 2012
This article very interestingly examines the circumstances surrounding the first encounter between Dr Watson and Sherlock Holmes and the unique nature of their relationship. The author explores Watson’s character as an emotionally and physically worn out medical officer who seeks refuge in the questionable London underbelly, and yet through his relationship with the troubled Sherlock Holmes, Watson falls into a role of aiding the correction and cleansing of London’s hidden crimes. Neill strongly addresses Holmes’s unique character as both a genius in finding and bringing justice to those living outside of the law, just as he himself lives outside of society through his own vices and abnormalities.
Orel, Harold. "Sherlock Holmes and His Creator: A Case of Mistaken Identity." Colby Quarterly 31.3 (1995): 169-78. Web. 13 Apr. 2012.
Orel’s article focuses entirely on the potential link which exists between Arthur Conan Doyle and the character of his invention Sherlock Holmes. Orel diagrams very specific events in Doyle’s personal history and connects them to events which occurred to Sherlock Holmes, postulating that Holmes may have been Doyle’s projection of himself into his own stories. Orel offers some evidence which could support this theory, but concludes by addressing the number of differences between the author and his character and suggesting there is not enough information to make this kind of a claim.
Tobin, Vera. "Ways of Reading Sherlock Holmes: The Entrenchment of Discourse Blends." Language and Literature: Journal of the Poetics and Linguistics Association 15.1 (2006): 73-90. Web. 15 Apr. 2012.
Tobin’s article explores the possibility of applying different reading strategies to Sherlock Holmes stories and thus gaining a different perspective or gain from reading the novels in different ways. Tobin’s article uses a very elevated language that make it somewhat difficult to follow his argument, but one of the reading perspectives which Tobin describes is a historical reading by taking this fictional work and reading it as if it were non-fiction in order to further appreciate a story steeped in reality and to better understand the societal implications present within the novel.
Wynne, Catherine. "Sherlock Holmes and the Problems of War: Traumatic Detections." English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 53.1 (2010): 29-53. Web. 15 Apr. 2012.
This was a very interesting article which focuses more on the Doyle the author of the text and how cultural conflicts and current events related to wars happening at the time of Doyle’s writing largely influenced Doyle’s own perceptions of nationalism and cultural sympathies which comes to be reflected in his stories. The author explains that Doyle’s own interest in medicine and war is most reflected in his character of Dr Watson, who is himself a medical officer who had recently served in Afghanistan. The article suggests that Dr Watson is a potential reflection of Doyle’s own character within the novels.
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