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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMcCuskey, Brian
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHow Sherlock Pulled the Trick :
_bSpiritualism and the Pseudoscientific Method /
_cBrian McCuskey.
264 1 _aUniversity Park, PA :
_bPenn State University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (208 p.)
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIntroduction The Book of Life --
_tChapter 1 Reason and Revelation, 1887 --
_tChapter 2 Reasoning Backward, 1881–1887 --
_tChapter 3 Theory and Preaching, 1887–1930 --
_tChapter 4 Wonderful Literature, 1930–2020 --
_tChapter 5 Negation at Any Cost, 2001–2020 --
_tNotes --
_tBibliography --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aA masterful combination of literary study and author biography, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick guides us through the parallel careers of two inseparable men: Sherlock Holmes and his creator, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Reconsidering Holmes in light of Doyle’s well-known belief in Victorian spiritualism, Brian McCuskey argues that the so-called scientific detective follows the same circular logic, along the same trail of questionable evidence, that led Doyle to the séance room.Holmes’s first case, A Study in Scarlet, was published in 1887, when natural scientists and religious apologists were hotly debating their differences in the London press. In this environment, Doyle became convinced that spiritualism, as a universal faith based on material evidence, resolved the conflict between science and religion. The character of Holmes, with his infallible logic, was Doyle’s good faith solution to the cultural conflicts of his day. Yet this solution has evolved into a new problem. Sherlock Holmes now authorizes the pseudoscience that corrupts our public sphere, defying logic, revising history, and promoting conspiracy theories. As this book demonstrates, wearing a deerstalker does not make you a mastermind—more likely, it marks you as a crackpot.Fascinating and highly readable, How Sherlock Pulled the Trick returns the iconic Holmes to his mystical origins.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)
650 0 _aDetective and mystery stories, English
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aLiterature and spiritualism.
650 0 _aPrivate investigators in literature.
650 0 _aSpiritualism in literature.
650 7 _aLITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
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653 _aArthur Conan Doyle.
653 _aSherlock Holmes.
653 _adetective fiction.
653 _aintelligent design creationism.
653 _ainternet conspiracy theory.
653 _apseudoscience.
653 _aseances.
653 _aspiritualism.
850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1515/9780271090467
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780271090467
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