Author (Sir) Arthur Conan Doyle wrote his first Holmes story, A Study in Scarlet, in year 1886. Transcending literature onto stage and screen, Sherlock Holmes continues to fascinate audiences to this day. The Sherlock Holmes exhibition of The Museum of London titled “The Man Who Never Lived And Will Never Die”, London’s first on the detective since 1951, uses early film, photography and paintings plus original Victorian era artefacts to recreate the atmosphere of Sherlock’s London, and to re-imagine the places featured in Conan Doyle’s famous stories.
The fictitious character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real man, Dr. Joseph Bell, a renown forensic scientist at Edinburgh University whom Conan Doyle studied under. The first Sherlock Holmes …show more content…
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first appearance in 1887.
Fans of the literary detective series Sherlock Holmes are considered to be the creators of the first modern fandom with the first fan fiction about the famous sleuth being written in the late 19th Century, only within 10 years of Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet. Since then the fan base for this character grew exponentially and can be considered one of the largest fandoms due to the character’s popularity.
Like many genre stories, “Sherlock” has inspired reams of “slash fiction” among its viewers, especially its female ones: the term goes back to the homoerotic Kirk/Spock stories of the nineteen-seventies. The genre exploded once the Internet came along: one can find slash fics just about any character imaginable. Rather than play innocent about these dynamics, “Sherlock” mines them heavily, for humor and frisson. Yet for all the “Wait, are they actually gay?” gags, the show is admirably committed to something more serious: the notion of Sherlock/Watson as both True Detective and True
The fictitious character Sherlock Holmes was based on a real man, Dr. Joseph Bell, a renown forensic scientist at Edinburgh University whom Conan Doyle studied under. The first Sherlock Holmes …show more content…
Few could have predicted the enduring fascination with the legendary detective Sherlock Holmes. From the stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle to the recent BBC series that has made a heart-throb out of Benedict Cumberbatch, the sleuth has been much a part of the British and global cultural legacy from the moment of his first appearance in 1887.
Fans of the literary detective series Sherlock Holmes are considered to be the creators of the first modern fandom with the first fan fiction about the famous sleuth being written in the late 19th Century, only within 10 years of Doyle’s first Sherlock Holmes novel A Study in Scarlet. Since then the fan base for this character grew exponentially and can be considered one of the largest fandoms due to the character’s popularity.
Like many genre stories, “Sherlock” has inspired reams of “slash fiction” among its viewers, especially its female ones: the term goes back to the homoerotic Kirk/Spock stories of the nineteen-seventies. The genre exploded once the Internet came along: one can find slash fics just about any character imaginable. Rather than play innocent about these dynamics, “Sherlock” mines them heavily, for humor and frisson. Yet for all the “Wait, are they actually gay?” gags, the show is admirably committed to something more serious: the notion of Sherlock/Watson as both True Detective and True