Sherlockiana

{{short description|Non-canonical works involving Sherlock Holmes}}

Sherlockiana encompasses various categories of materials and content related to the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, created by Arthur Conan Doyle. The word "Sherlockiana" has been used for literary studies and scholarship concerning Sherlock Holmes, Sherlock Holmes pastiches in print and other media such as films, and memorabilia associated with Sherlock Holmes. Sherlockiana may be "anything about, inspired by, or tangentially concerning" Sherlock Holmes.{{cite web |url=https://rarebooksdigest.com/2012/05/17/the-origins-of-sherlockiana/#comments |title=The origins of Sherlockiana |website=Rare Books Digest |date=17 May 2020 |access-date=19 July 2020}}

Fiction

{{main|Sherlock Holmes pastiches|List of authors of new Sherlock Holmes stories}}

Non-canonical works of fiction featuring Sherlock Holmes, by creators other than Arthur Conan Doyle, have been referred to as examples of "Sherlockiana".{{cite web |url=https://crimereads.com/the-year-in-sherlockiana/ |website=CrimeReads |last=Faye |first=Lyndsay |author-link=Lyndsay Faye |date= 2 January 2019 |title=The Year in Sherlockiana |access-date=19 July 2020}} Charles Spencer, former theatre critic for The Daily Telegraph, used the term to refer to the 2009–12 releases of the novel The House of Silk, the television series Sherlock, and two Sherlock Holmes films, Sherlock Holmes and its sequel Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, as representative of a "golden age of Sherlockiana."{{cite web |last=Spencer |first=Charles |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/film-blog/8966559/Sherlock-Holmes-we-are-living-in-a-golden-age-of-Sherlockiana.html |title=Sherlock Holmes: we are living in a golden age of Sherlockiana |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=19 December 2011 |access-date=19 November 2015}}

Literary studies

File:The Encyclopadeia Sherlockiana.jpg

When used to refer to literary studies, "Sherlockiana" includes essays and works about Sherlock Holmes such as Vincent Starrett's 1933 book The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes.{{cite book|last1=Morley|first1=Christopher|author2=Steven Rothman|title=The Standard Doyle Company: Christopher Morley on Sherlock Holmes|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RsQIjpXdDEgC|year=1990|publisher=Fordham Univ Press|isbn=978-0-8232-1292-7|pages=16, 68, 161}} Some of these studies concern the Sherlockian game, a pastime of attempting to resolve anomalies and clarify implied details about Holmes and Watson.{{cite encyclopedia |url=http://www.arthur-conan-doyle.com/index.php/Sherlockiana |title=Sherlockiana |encyclopedia=The Conan Doyle Encyclopedia |access-date=19 November 2015}} The word is used in the title of The Encyclopaedia Sherlockiana, first published in 1977 and republished as The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia in 1987, a reference text containing an exhaustive list of over 3,500 people, places, and things associated with the universe of Sherlock Holmes.{{Cite book|last=Tracy|first=Jack|title=The Ultimate Sherlock Holmes Encyclopedia|publisher=Gramercy|year=1987|isbn=0-517-65444-X }} The quarterly journal The Baker Street Journal is subtitled An Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana.{{cite web |url=http://files.bakerstreetirregulars.com/bsj/ebsj-275-v61n4-winter-2011.pdf |title=The Baker Street Journal, Vol. 61, No. 4, Winter 2011 |website=The Baker Street Irregulars |editor-last=Rothman |editor-first=Steven |access-date=19 July 2020}}

Memorabilia

The term "Sherlockiana" has been used to refer to objects connected to Sherlock Holmes. Collections of Sherlockiana may include audio-visual recordings, books, magazines, newspaper clippings, art, clothing, advertising, stationery, and any other items associated with Holmes.{{cite book |title=Out of the Ordinary: Popular Art, Architecture and Design |last=Groves |first=Derham |pages=199–215 |publisher=Cambridge Scholars Publishing |year=2000 |isbn=9781527551428 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=G7bkDwAAQBAJ&q=Sherlockiana}} The University of Minnesota contains the world's largest archive of Sherlockiana as of 2015, a large portion of which was bequeathed by American collector John Bennett Shaw{{cite web |url=https://www.mprnews.org/story/2015/06/27/books-thread-sherlock-archive-minnesota |title=Exploring the largest Sherlock Holmes archive in the world |last=Mumford |first=Tracy |date=27 June 2015 |website=Minnesota Public Radio News |access-date=19 July 2020}} upon his death in 1994.

Monuments

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The interest in works about Sherlock Holmes has extended to intrigue by the United States Smithsonian Museums about the original location of 221B Baker Street.{{Cite web |last=Magazine |first=Smithsonian |last2=Stamp |first2=Jimmy |title=The Mystery of 221B Baker Street |url=https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/the-mystery-of-221b-baker-street-3608784/ |access-date=2023-01-29 |website=Smithsonian Magazine |language=en}} The investigation found that the supposed location of Holmes and Watson's flat did not exist during the early stories such as A Study in Scarlet. However, in 1990, the Sherlock Holmes International Society opened up the Sherlock Holmes Museum at 221B Baker Street. Furthermore, statues of Holmes displays "Sherlockian" culture as idolizing elements of the world.

File:Statue of Sherlock Holmes in Edinburgh.jpg|Edinburg, Scotland

File:Sherlock Holmes statue at Meiringen1.jpg|Meringen, Switzerland

File:Statue Of Sherlock Holmes-Marylebone Road.jpg|London, England

References

External links

[http://www.bakerstreetjournal.com/ The Baker Street Journal], an Irregular Quarterly of Sherlockiana
[http://hrc.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15878coll8 Sherlock Holmes and Sherlockiana Collection] at the Harry Ransom Center Digital Collections
[https://www.lib.umn.edu/scrbm/ush/intro The Universal Sherlock Holmes] at the University of Minnesota

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