The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings

The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes is about reading, a process that we take for granted. But Sherlock Holmes, the cultural icon to whose exploits Michael Atkinson gives new readings, became famous by taking nothing for granted. Holmes's adventures can be read in new ways, including ways that he himself would have found startling, but which can give contemporary readers satisfaction. In clear, accessible prose that will engage specialists and lay readers alike, Atkinson engages in "a series of flirtations" with nine of Arthur Conan Doyle's favorite detective fictions, using the tools of modern literary theory, from depth psychology to deconstruction. Bluebeard, the kundalini serpent, and Conan Doyle's mother pop up alongside Jung, Nietzsche, and Derrida as guides to new understandings of these classic stories. Just as Holmes uses treatises on tobacco ash and tattoos to give fresh readings to puzzling facts, Atkinson employs widely different critical strategies to unravel the mysteries of reading itself.

The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes and Other Eccentric Readings,Michael Atkinson,University of Michigan Press,0472107100,1859-1930,Characters,Detective and mystery stories, English,Doyle, Arthur Conan,,Doyle, Arthur Conan, 1859-1930,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,History and criticism,Holmes, Sherlock (Fictitious character),Literary Criticism,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Popular Culture - General,Private investigators in literature,Sherlock Holmes,Sir,,Doyle, Arthur Conan,Social Science / Popular Culture

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