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1 results foundAuthor: Workman, Simon Title: "A Criminal Strain Ran In His Blood": Biomedical Science, Criminology, and Empire in the Sherlock Holmes Canon Summary: Nearly a century and a half after their initial publication, it is clear that Arthur Conan Doyle's Sherlock Holmes stories and novels continue to be a cultural phenomenon throughout the world. However, less clear are the ways in which those works emerged in response to-and as an example of-cultural anxieties surrounding advancements in science, particularly in the fields of biology and medicine. Advances such as Darwin's theory of evolution through natural selection not only called into question basic long-standing assumptions about man's relationship to the universe; they also promised to improve the investigation of crime, as well as potentially justify certain imperialist beliefs about racial difference-beliefs that themselves influenced the development of criminal investigation. This project demonstrates how the Sherlock Holmes novels and stories both respond to and participate in the ideological nexus of biomedical science, criminology, and British imperialism by examining the ways in which certain key texts in the Holmes canon deploy medical discourse, criminological theory, and imperialist assumptions in the creation of a rational and "scientific" worldview through the characters of Dr. John Watson and Sherlock Holmes. Details: Cincinnati: University of Cincinnati, 2017. 183p. Source: Internet Resource: Dissertation: Accessed April 3, 2018 at; https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ucin1505126689988603&disposition=inline Year: 2017 Country: International URL: https://etd.ohiolink.edu/!etd.send_file?accession=ucin1505126689988603&disposition=inline Shelf Number: 149659 Keywords: Crime in LiteratureCrime NovelsLiteraturePopular Culture |