the theory that's come to really dominate non-Sherlockian criticism of the repressive relationship between detective fiction and social liberation or deviance.
I was driving home from work today and thinking that a famous Sherlockian who really buys into this reading but should really know better is Michael Chabon--in The Final Solution a character actually looks at Holmes and explicitly thinks that she sees in him "all the vanished rectitude of the Empire" or something very close to that phrase.
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Date: 2010-04-30 07:25 pm (UTC)I was driving home from work today and thinking that a famous Sherlockian who really buys into this reading but should really know better is Michael Chabon--in The Final Solution a character actually looks at Holmes and explicitly thinks that she sees in him "all the vanished rectitude of the Empire" or something very close to that phrase.