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...fictional hero able to decode the overwhelming signs of urban modernity. But this argument overlooks a crucial point: the intellectual qualities that made Holmes a hero also made him a figure of suspicion. The detective was not an immediate success. Arthur Conan Doyle’s first two Holmes novels, A Study in Scarlet (1887) and The Sign of the Four (1890) initially received...

...fiction still tell us something about real societies? Moreover, what sort of voice is Homer's? Was he part of an elite? In that case, how is what he says biased by this fact? Or was he influenced by what his audience wanted to hear? Along with the vast majority of ancient voices we hear through literature, Homer's is a male voice; and even most of the far fewer female...

...fiction' is that it created a space or place as much then as it does now where literary artists could visualise and symbolise the fragility, fragmentation and permeability of our physical identity, fears of social alienation and the complexity of the human condition. The Twilight Zone Vampires as we have come to know, love, or be bored silly by (brooding and Byronic types...