Review of Catherine Wynne’s ‘Sherlock Holmes and the Problems of War: Traumatic Detections’

摘要

The relationship between medicine, war and criminal detection are under investigation in Catherine Wynne's article on Arthur Conan Doyle. In particular, Wynne is interested in what she names Doyle's varied "traumatic detections", (31) his responses to war in medical journalism, and the Sherlock Holmes canon. By the end of the article, Wynne hopes to have shown us "that Doyle's own traumatic experience of war was more profound than is commonly recognised or perhaps more than he ever knew himself" (49).