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Useful General Reference Works

Here is a listing of useful works for scholars of Sherlock Holmes. This list was provided by Sherlockian scholar Ashley D. Polasek, Ph.D. For updates to this listing, please send the biographical entry and link to download to the Sherlockian team.

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The BSI Manuscript Series

Berquist, John, ed. So Painful a Scandal: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Three Students” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2009. Print. Available for purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/painfulscandal.html

Betzner, Ray and David F. Morrill, eds. Dancing to Death: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Dancing Men” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2016. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/dancingdeath.html

Conan Doyle, Arthur. Memories and Adventures. London: John Murray, 1930. Print. To Access: http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks14/1400681h.html

Dahlinger, S.E. and Leslie S. Klinger, eds. Sherlock Holmes, Conan Doyle, & The Bookman: Pastiches, Parodies, Letters, Columns and Commentary from America’s “Magazine of Literature and Life” (1895-1933). Indianapolis: Gasogene, 2010. Print. To Purchase: http://www.wessexpress.com/html/bookman.html

De Waal, Ronald. The World Bibliography of Sherlock Holmes. New York: New York Graphic Society, 1975. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/World-Bibliography-Sherlock-Holmes-Dr- Watson/dp/0821204203

Hyder, William, ed. The Napoleon Bust Business Again: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Six Napoleons” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2004. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/napoleonbust.html

King, Laurie R. And Leslie Klinger, eds. The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship Volume One: 1902-1959. New York: BSI Press, 2011. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/grandgamev1.html

---. The Grand Game: A Celebration of Sherlockian Scholarship Volume Two:1960-2010. New York: BSI Press, 2011. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/grandgamev2.html

Lellenberg, Jon, Daniel Stashower, and Charles Foley. Arthur Conan Doyle: A Life in Letters. London: Penguin, 2007. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Arthur-Conan-Doyle-Life- Letters/dp/0143114336

Pilot, Roy, Gianluca Salvatori, and Enrico Solito, eds. Mandate for Murder: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Red Circle” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2006. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/mandatemurder.html

Solberg, Andrew, Steven Rothman, and Robert Katz, eds. Out of the Abyss: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Empty House” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2014. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/abyss.html

Solberg, Andrew and Robert Katz, eds. Bohemian Souls: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “A Scandal in Bohemia” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2011. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/bohemiansouls.html

---. Irregular Stain: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Second Stain” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2013. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/stain.html

---. The Wrong Passage: A Facsimile of the Original Manuscript of “The Golden Pince-Nez” by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle with Annotations and Commentary on the Story. New York: BSI Press, 2012. Print. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/wrongpassage.html

Articles, Chapters, and Books on the Canon

Ardolino, Frank. “Arthur Conan Doyle’s Use of Restoration History in the “Musgrave Ritual”’ ANQ 24.3 (2011): 154-62. To Purchase: http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0895769X.2011.590092?scroll=top&needAccess=true

Bragg, Tom. “Becoming a ‘mere appendix’: the rehabilitated masculinity of Sherlock Holmes.” Victorian Newsletter. 116 (2009): 3-26. To Access: https://www.academia.edu/21122085/Becoming_a_Mere_Appendix_The_Rehabilitated_Masculinity_of_Sherlock_Holmes

Cunningham, Henry. “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of Race.” Journal of Popular Culture 28.2 (1994): 113-25. To Purchase: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.0022-3840.1994.2802_113.x/pdf

Hall, Jasmine. “Ordering the Sensational: Sherlock Holmes and the Female Gothic.” Studies in Short Fiction 28.3 (1991): 295-304. To Access: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/editorials/9705052050/ordering-sensational-sherlock-holmes-female

Haynesworth, Leslie. “Sensational Adventures: Sherlock Holmes and His Generic Past.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 44.4 (2001): 459-85. Request Full Text: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/236792226_Sensational_Adventures_Sherlock_Holmes_and_His_Generic_Past

Kestner, Joseph. “‘Real’ Men: Construction of Masculinity in the Sherlock Holmes Narratives.” Studies in the Literary Imagination 29.1 (1996): 73-89. To Access: https://search.proquest.com/openview/7f51b6e8aba6953fe4c01d955be4ee38/1?pq-origsite=gscholar&cbl=1821481

Krasner, James. “Watson Falls Asleep: Narrative Frustration and Sherlock Holmes.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 40.4 (1997): 424-36. To Access: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/literary-criticism/15768503/watson-falls-asleep-narrative-frustration-sherlock-holmes

O’Dell, Benjamin D. “Performing the Imperial Abject: The Ethics of Cocaine in Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Sign of Four.” Journal of Popular Culture 45.5 (2012): 979-99. To Purchase: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2012.00969.x/full

Saler, Michael. As If: Modern Enchantment and the Literary Prehistory of Virtual Reality. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2012. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/As-If-Enchantment-Literary-PreHistory/dp/0195343174

Wynne, Catherine. “Sherlock Holmes and the Problems of War: Traumatic Detections.” English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 53.1 (2010): 29-53. To Access: http://www.literatureandscience.org/issues/JLS_3_1/JLS_vol_3_no_1_Willis.pdf

Articles, Chapters, and Books on Adaptations

Barefoot, Guy. Gaslight Melodrama: From Victorian London to 1940s Hollywood. New York: Continuum, 2001. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Gaslight-Melodrama-Victorian-London- Hollywood/dp/0826453341

Barnes, Alan, Sherlock Holmes on Screen. London: Titan, 2012. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Holmes-Screen-Updated- Complete/dp/085768776X

Coules, Bert. 221 BBC: Writing for the World’s Only Complete Dramatised Canon and Beyond. Indianapolis: Gasogene, 2014. Print. To Purchase: http://www.wessexpress.com/html/221bbc.html

Davies, David Stuart. Bending the Willow: Jeremy Brett as Sherlock Holmes. Ashcroft: Calabash, 2002. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Bending-Willow-Jeremy-Sherlock-%20Holmes/dp/1553100352

---. Starring Sherlock Holmes: A Century of the Master Detective on Screen. London: Titan, 2007. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Starring-Sherlock-Holmes-Century-%20Detective/dp/1845765370/

Farghaly, Nadine, ed. Gender and the Modern Sherlock Holmes: Essays on Film and Television Adaptations since 2009. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015. Print. To Purchase: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-9459-0

Faye, Lyndsay and Ashley Polasek, eds. Sherlock Holmes: Behind the Canonical Screen. New York: BSI Press, 2015. To Purchase: http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/behindscreen.html

Nollen, Scott Allen. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle at the Cinema: A Critical Study of the Film Adaptations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996. Print. To Purchase: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-2124-4

Polasek, Ashley. “Sherlockian Simulacra: Adaptation and the Postmodern Construction of Reality.” Literature/ Film Quarterly 40:2 (2012): 191-6. To Purchase: http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/78122595/sherlockian- simulacra-adaptation-postmodern-construction-reality

---. “Surveying the Post-Millennial Sherlock Holmes: A Case for the Great Detective as a Man of our Times.” Adaptation 6:2 (2013). To Purchase: https://doi.org/10.1093/adaptation/apt006

Porter, Lynette, ed. Sherlock Holmes for the 21st Century: Essays on New Adaptations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Print. To Purchase: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6840-9

Porter, Lynette, ed. Who is Sherlock?: Essays on Identity in Modern Holmes Adaptations. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016. Print. To Purchase: https://www.amazon.com/Sherlock-Essays-Identity-Modern- Adaptations/dp/0786499079

Poore, Benjamin. Sherlock Holmes from Screen to Stage: Post-Millennial Adaptations in British Literature. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Print. To Purchase: http://www.palgrave.com/la/book/9781137469625

Primorac, Antonija. “The Naked Truth: The Postfeminist Afterlives of Irene Adler.” Neo- Victorian Studies 6.2 (2013): 89-113. To Access: https://www.academia.edu/5016059/The_Naked_Truth_The_Postfeminist_Afterlives_of_ Irene_Adler

Stein, Louisa Ellen and Kristina Busse. Sherlock and Transmedia Fandom: Essays on the BBC Series. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012. Print. To Purchase: http://www.mcfarlandbooks.com/book-2.php?id=978-0-7864-6818-8

Articles, Chapters, and Books on Sherlockian Fan Culture

Pearson, Roberta. “Bachies, Bardies, Trekkies, and Sherlockians.” Fandom: Identities and Communities in a Mediated World. Ed. Jonathan Gray, Cornel Sandvoss, and C. Harrington. New York: NYU Press, 2007: 98-109. To Access: https://lauraknowles.wordpress.com/2008/08/17/pearson-bachies-bardies-trekkies-and-sherlockians/

---. “Kings of Infinite Space: Cult Television Characters and Narrative Possibilities.” Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies (2003): n. page. To Access: https://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2003/november- 2003/pearson.pdf

---. “‘It’s Always 1895’: Sherlock Holmes in Cyberspace.” Trash Aesthetics: Popular Culture and Its Audience. Ed. Deborah Cartmell, I.Q. Hunter, Heidi Kaye, and Imelda Whelehan. London: Pluto, 1997. Print. Request Full Text: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/290942680_It%27s_always_1895_sherlock_holmes_in_cyberspace

Polasek, Ashley. “Traditional Transformations and Transmedial Affirmations: Blurring the Boundaries of Sherlockian Fan Practices.” Transformative Works and Cultures 23 (2017). To Access: http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/911/778

Interviews

“Arthur Conan Doyle (1927).” Online video clip. Internet Archive. Internet Archive, n.d. Web. 5 June 2013. To Access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDw4FBp6S2g

averyfineloafer. “Jeremy Brett: The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Looks Forward to his Last Case.” Livejournal. Live Journal, 2 Feb. 2006. To Access: http://jeremybrett.livejournal.com/24476.html#/24476.html

---. “Jeremy Brett Interview: National Public Radio, November 1991.” Livejournal. Live Journal, 2 Feb. 2006. To Access: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zz0lUpl98TI

Gunner 54. “Jeremy Brett: The Lost Sherlock Holmes Interview.” Fifty-Four. WordPress, 15 Apr. 2007. To Access: https://gunner54.wordpress.com/jeremy-brett-interview/