First-Year Seminars 110SH - Sherlock Holmes

From Victorian periodicals to blockbuster movies and steampunk, Sherlock Holmes has remained current. Nineteenth-century detective literature was popular entertainment at the same time that it took on the anxieties and hopes of its historical moment, including those around capital, otherness, authority, and theories of knowledge. We will focus on Arthur Conan Doyle and the nineteenth century, with tangents to influences and afterlives.