Items for "Arthur Conan Doyle"

Reading Holmes: Capital and the sign of the market in The Hound of the Baskervilles

Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles, one of his most financially successful stories, is not so much a fantasy of ‘policing’ Victorian society and its wealthy class (as it appears in part to be), as it is a subtle unwriting of a policed society and the related securities of semiotic, financial, professional, and scientific processes...

Keywords: Arthur Conan Doyle, the detective, the villain, Narrative, the sign of capital, interchangeability