spammy scholastic sadface

[lotesse]

Am having unhappy handwaving at all the scholarship that casts Sherlock Holmes as the Kyriarchal Avenger. Not saying ACD didn't have The Problems with race/class/gender, not to mention the weird imperial Issues, but still! Holmes can be on the side of the angels, damn it!

Sulking now. And then finishing writing up my rebuttals for the purposes of this dratted paper.

eta: yo, in formal writing, is is Doyle or Conan Doyle? I somehow think the latter, but I just realized that I don't really have a justification for that, and that I should probably know what I'm doing for real here.

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[lotesse]

Right exactly! And they only manage it by totally ignoring all of the queer stuff. Bah.

[starlady]

Yeah, it really seems like they're reading against the text in a lot of ways.

[damned_colonial]

Oh oh oh I wanted to ask you (and I'm just going to jump into this thread to do so), have you read Matt Cook's "London and the subculture of homosexuality, 1885-1914"? Because it seems like you probably have, but if not, I just wanted to rec it. It's like the perfect single-volume non-fiction companion to H/W fandom. I have a big ol' meta post I need to make about it sometime. Maybe even tonight. Who knows.

[lotesse]

I - feel like I read it at some point, but it is not clear in my mind. Okay. Back to the library tomorrow!

[damned_colonial]

just in passing, btw, I maybe have a plot figured out for a H/W timeloop fic.

[lotesse]

*wild flailing omg wriiite eet!*

[damned_colonial]

The writing begins tonight!

[lotesse]

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