Pracownia Ośrodka Studiów Brytyjskich Instytutu Anglistyki zaprasza na wykład otwarty pt. „Of Time and the City: Sherlock Holmes and the <Strand Magazine>, 1891-1930”, który wygłosi dr Jonathan Cranfield z Liverpool John Moores University.
Wykład odbędzie się 19 maja w godz. 10-11 w Instytucie Anglistyki (ul. Hoża 69, sala 335).
The Sherlock Holmes stories produced one of the most enduring images of the Victorian age yet the majority of the stories were produced and published in the twentieth century. This phenomenon would have been far harder if the stories had not been published in the Strand Magazine. This talk will explore how the Strand helped to situate its readers within an imaginative simulacrum of London. Its use of illustrations, photographs, short story conventions, modes of address and nonfiction essay subjects all helped to construct this living textual environment. The city would change dramatically between 1891 and 1930 and the Strand was incentivised to reflect these changes and to modernise itself. Yet the Holmes stories were almost exclusively set against the unchanging, ersatz Victoriana of the early series. This paper will analyse the emergence of this dislocation and explore the ways in which the later Holmes stories acted as a record of the long slow death of Victorian England.