Gálla, Edit (2024) Gothic Villains in Three Sherlock Holmes Stories. EGER JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES, 24. pp. 89-112. ISSN 1786-5638 (print); 2060-9159 (online)
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Abstract
The classic detective story emerged with the publication of Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes narratives in the 1890s, which coincided with the resurgence of the Gothic. By drawing comparisons between Gothic genre conventions and Doyle’s fiction, this paper argues that there are two Gothic plot devices in “The Speckled Band,” “The Creeping Man,” and “The Sussex Vampire”: the illusion of supernatural interference and the villainous father who destroys his family. The apparently unnatural events occur due to the ominous presence of animals as both instruments of wrongdoing and images of racial degeneration. Thus, these Gothic Holmes stories negotiate anxieties about degeneracy and declining paternal authority.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Gothic, detective fiction, evolutionary theories, criminology, degeneration |
| Subjects: | P Language and Literature / nyelvészet és irodalom > PR English literature / angol irodalom |
| Depositing User: | Tibor Gál |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jul 2025 12:10 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jul 2025 12:10 |
| URI: | https://real.mtak.hu/id/eprint/221445 |
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