320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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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... Read more
Contents: Introduction; Model with damaged eyes: autobiographical writings; When did you last see your father? The early fiction; Sh ... ! : reminiscences of a London medical man; Tortured bodies and nervous narratives: the novels of the 1890s; Figures in the sand: histories, war correspondence and legal campaigning; Beyond auto/biography: spiritualism and travel writing; Bibliography; Index.
Biography
Diana Barsham is Professor of Cultural History at University of Derby.
