Myth and Modern Man in Sherlock Holmes: Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and the Uses of Nostalgia by Payne, David S - 1993

Bloomington, Indiana: Gaslight Publications, 1992. CE4 - A first edition (same date) hardcover book in very good condition in good dust jacket. Dust jacket has wrinkling, chipping, crease and small tears and taped tears on the edges and corners, some scattered scratches, scuffing, and rubbing, tanning and light shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. For more than a hundred years, critics, scholars and the whole spectrum of readers have been pleasantly mystified by the enduring popularity of Sherlock Holmes. Why is an eccentric, pipe-smoking Victorian detective the greatest fictional character of all time? Myth and Modern Man in Sherlock Holmes answers this question at long last with a thoughtful assessment of Conan Doyle's place in history. As social and technological developments propelled his generation into the modern world, human experience became characterized by unceasing change, amoral and directionless. Many thinkers recognized the modernist… Read More

Gaslight Pubns, 1993-08-01. hardcover. New. 100x16x148.

Gaslight Pubns, 1993-08-01. Hardcover. New. 9x6x1.