In print books, yes. For some reason, many writers with little to say on the topic see fit to bring it up only to disagree with it. It would be a shame if everyone was referring to the same set of criticisms, but I do have notes somewhere. Sadly I don't have the BSJ archive CD. Perhaps I'll make it my birthday present to myself later this year ;)
Christopher Redmond summed up a lot of writings on sex in In Bed With Sherlock Holmes in the 80s. The section on H/W is likely to disappoint most fans, as while it discusses the H-W 'love scenes' in certain parts of the canon, it dismisses the topic fairly lightly in order to move onto Rosenberg's semiotic analysis of REDH (which is about as far away from genuinely talking about queer people as you're likely to get. :p) It does mention one odd article in the SHSL (Sherlock Holmes Society of London) journal which I haven't read...OK, basically I should just write up a list of these. There are a few, though none of the non-fiction writings go into detail on the topic. Almost universally, they come down on the 'probably not' or 'impossible to know' side of things ... and I need to write the list, don't I?
Re Watson was a Woman, the fandom has flirted with those sorts of interpretation without fuss, IIRC, but it's not something that is frequently discussed with any seriousness. The attitude is more of a playful one IME, and delving more deeply is treated as something absurd (as though it is any more absurd than the rest of our dearly beloved fandom!! :)) It drives me round the bend sometimes, and come to think of it I know someone who was thinking of putting an article on the topic in the SHSL journal. Other members treated her suggestion positively, but I suspect that some in the fandom still consider the topic to be an irritation.
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Re: Come on, we were all thinking it ;)
Date: 2010-05-25 06:12 pm (UTC)Christopher Redmond summed up a lot of writings on sex in In Bed With Sherlock Holmes in the 80s. The section on H/W is likely to disappoint most fans, as while it discusses the H-W 'love scenes' in certain parts of the canon, it dismisses the topic fairly lightly in order to move onto Rosenberg's semiotic analysis of REDH (which is about as far away from genuinely talking about queer people as you're likely to get. :p) It does mention one odd article in the SHSL (Sherlock Holmes Society of London) journal which I haven't read...OK, basically I should just write up a list of these. There are a few, though none of the non-fiction writings go into detail on the topic. Almost universally, they come down on the 'probably not' or 'impossible to know' side of things ... and I need to write the list, don't I?
Re Watson was a Woman, the fandom has flirted with those sorts of interpretation without fuss, IIRC, but it's not something that is frequently discussed with any seriousness. The attitude is more of a playful one IME, and delving more deeply is treated as something absurd (as though it is any more absurd than the rest of our dearly beloved fandom!! :)) It drives me round the bend sometimes, and come to think of it I know someone who was thinking of putting an article on the topic in the SHSL journal. Other members treated her suggestion positively, but I suspect that some in the fandom still consider the topic to be an irritation.