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      Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity
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      Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity

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      Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity

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      Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity book

      ByDiana Barsham
      Edition 1st Edition
      First Published 2000
      eBook Published 4 November 2016
      Pub. Location London
      Imprint Routledge
      DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315262079
      Pages 320
      eBook ISBN 9781315262079
      Subjects Humanities, Language & Literature
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      Barsham, D. (2000). Arthur Conan Doyle and the Meaning of Masculinity (1st ed.). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315262079

      ABSTRACT

      A valued icon of British manhood, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death in 1930. All his biographers have drawn heavily on his own autobiography, Memories & Adventures, a collection of stories and anecdotes themed on the subject of masculinity and its representation. Diana Barsham discusses Doyle's career in the context of that nineteenth-century biographical tradition which Dr Watson so successfully appropriated. It explores Doyle's determination to become a great name in the culture of his day and the strains on his identity arising from this project. A Scotsman with an alcoholic, Irish, fairy-painting father, Doyle offered himself and his writings as a model of British manhood during the greatest crisis of British history. Doyle was committed to finding solutions to some of the most difficult cultural problematics of late Victorian masculinity. As novelist, war correspondent, historian, legal campaigner, propagandist and religious leader, he used his fame as the creator of Sherlock Holmes to refigure the spirit of British Imperialism. This original and thought-provoking study offers a revision of the Doyle myth. It presents his career as a series of dialoguic contestations with writers like Thomas Hardy and Winston Churchill to define the masculine presence in British culture. In his spiritualist campaign, Doyle took on the figure of St Paul in an attempt to create a new religious culture for a Socialist age.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      chapter |9 pages

      Introduction

      chapter 1|46 pages

      Model with Damaged Eyes: Autobiographical Writings

      chapter 2|42 pages

      When Did You Last See Your Father? The Early Fiction

      chapter 3|45 pages

      Sh ... !: Reminiscences of a London Medical Man

      chapter 4|47 pages

      Tortured Bodies and Nervous Narratives: The Novels of the 1890s

      chapter 5|52 pages

      Figures in the Sand: Histories, War Correspondence and Legal Campaigning

      chapter 6|46 pages

      Beyond Auto/biography: Spiritualism and Travel Writing

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