{"id":36832,"date":"2020-04-05T05:41:46","date_gmt":"2020-04-05T02:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=36832"},"modified":"2020-04-05T05:41:46","modified_gmt":"2020-04-05T02:41:46","slug":"gothic-influences-in-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/gothic-influences-in-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothic influences in Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of a forthcoming book, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.eerpublishing.com\/del-grazia-no-ghosts-need-apply.html\">No Ghosts Need Apply: Gothic influences in criminal science, the detective and Doyle\u2019s Holmesian Canon<\/a><\/em> (October 2020), attempts to make the case that there are gothic traces in what are often assumed to be the &#8216;rationalist&#8217; Sherlock Holmes stories.  Sifting the extensive blurb for the book, one can eventually determine that the author suggests the following specific points&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>* intrigue and secret societies;<\/p>\n<p>* uncanny consequences of new technologies and scientific discoveries;<\/p>\n<p>* instances of degeneration, regression and atavism; <\/p>\n<p>* Sherlockian discussion of &#8216;criminal types&#8217;;<\/p>\n<p>* the melancholy moods of the great detective.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>One might also suggest&#8230; <\/p>\n<p>* the isolated house and its &#8216;hidden&#8217; structure, re: secret passages, mysteriously locked and shuttered rooms, and suchlike;<\/p>\n<p>* disguises and assumed identity;<\/p>\n<p>* Holmes alternates between mental states, from drugged or lethargic to hyper-perceptive of things others cannot see;<\/p>\n<p>* sudden personality change;<\/p>\n<p>* landscape expresses a mood &#8211; moonlit city streets and moorland fogs; <\/p>\n<p>* fatal love, vengeance;<\/p>\n<p>* strange methods of dispatch &mdash; poisons, maddening gases, deadly imported creatures and the like;<\/p>\n<p>* stories within stories, some unreliable or apparently conflicting.<\/p>\n<p>Curiously, thinking about Holmes makes me wonder about the broad similarities between the pairings of Sam\/Frodo and Watson\/Holmes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The second half of a forthcoming book, No Ghosts Need Apply: Gothic influences in criminal science, the detective and Doyle\u2019s &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2020\/04\/05\/gothic-influences-in-holmes\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-books","category-odd-scratchings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}