Disease, detection and diagnosis
The medical short story and the struggle for literary success in the 1890s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13005240 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Suzanne Bray (0000-0002-6570-1671, Université Catholique de Lille, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 155-167 |
| Publication date | 2022-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2043-0701 • E-ISSN: 2043-071X |
| Publisher | Intellect (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1386/fict_00059_1 |
| OpenAlex | W4312866251 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 7 |
After the first death of Sherlock Holmes in 1893, both Arthur Conan Doyle and L. T. Meade turned to the medical short story in order to fill the gap in the popular market. While Meade’s series in The Strand (1893–96), in collaboration with Dr Clifford Halifax, were extremely popular and created a new, sub-genre of detective fiction, Doyle’s stories, published in Round the Red Lamp (1894) were not well-received. The irony in this comes from the fact that Meade managed to adapt the Sherlock Holmes formula to medical fiction, while Doyle did not learn from his own success
Art · Art history · Business · Irony · Literature · Order (exchange · Crime and Detective Fiction Studies · Gothic Literature and Media Analysis · History · Publishing and Scholarly Communication
| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 0,25 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2022 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |