Round the Red Lamp
Being Facts and Fancies of Medical Life
Will be published approx. on 18. July 2023
Book
Hardback
400 pages
978-1-3995-1918-2 (ISBN)
Description
This is a scholarly edition of Arthur Conan Doyle's controversial collection of medical tales, first published in 1894 in the first flush of his fame. Conan Doyle had trained in medicine at Edinburgh University in the 1870s, and then spent eight years as a General Practitioner in Southsea, before deciding to become a professional author in 1890. The stories he collected in Round the Red Lamp are gathered from his medical training and incidents in his life as a provincial GP. Some of the stories are daring - dealing explicitly with child birth, sexually transmitted diseases and malpractice. Some are sentimental or comic vignettes. Some are Gothic horrors. On publication the shades of dark and light bewildered some of his readers and the medical realism outraged others. Round the Red Lamp is a vital collection in understanding Conan Doyle's shift of profession from medic to author.
Reviews / Votes
Luckhurst has produced a scholarly yet accessible edition of a pivotal collection of medical short stories, which should be essential reading for students of nineteenth-century literature and medicine. Beyond relating a fascinating publication and reception history, the introduction is a great starting point for anyone wishing to understand how medical practitioners were represented in Victorian fiction. -- Megan Coyer, University of GlasgowMore details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Illustrations
51 black and white illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 168 mm
Thickness: 37 mm
Weight
824 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-3995-1918-2 (9781399519182)
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05/2023
1st Edition
Edinburgh University Press
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Persons
Roger Luckhurst is Geoffrey Tillotson Professor of Nineteenth Century Studies at Birkbeck College, University of London. He is the author of many books on science fiction, the Gothic and specialises in the late nineteenth century. He has edited for Oxford World's Classics works by Henry James, H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Louis Stevenson, Bram Stoker, and H. G. Wells, and, for the British Library Press, a selection of the ghost stories of M. R. James.
Content
General Editor's IntroductionAcknowledgementsChronology of the Life of Arthur Conan DoyleIntroductionGenesis and CompositionPublication HistoryReceptionContext: BiographicalContext: Medical
Round the Red LampThe PrefaceBehind the TimesHis First OperationA Straggler of '15The Third GenerationA False StartThe Curse of EveSweetheartsA Physiologist's WifeThe Case of Lady SannoxA Question of DiplomacyA Medical DocumentLot No. 249The Los Amigos FiascoThe Doctors of HoylandThe Surgeon TalksEssay on the Text
Appendices
Additional Stories added to Crowborough edition'Crabbe's Practice' (1884)'My Friend the Murderer' (1882)
Author's Edition preface to Round the Red Lamp (1903)
One-Act play adaptations'Foreign Policy' (1893)'Waterloo' (1894)
Early Medical Essays of Conan Doyle
'Gelseminum as a Poison', British Medical Journal (20 Sept 1879)'Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia', The Lancet (25 March 1882)'Life and Death in the Blood', Good Words (March 1883)'The Contagious Diseases Act', The Medical Times (16 June 1883)'American Medical Diplomas' The Evening News, Portsmouth (23 Sept 1884)'The Remote Effects of Gout', The Lancet (29 November 1884)'Compulsory Vaccination', The Evening Mail, Portsmouth (15 July 1887)'Compulsory Vaccination', The Hampshire County Times (27 July 1887)'The Consumption Cure', Daily Telegraph (20 Nov 1890)'Dr Koch and His Cure', Review of Reviews 2 (Dec 1890)
ApparatusAbbreviationsEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes
Round the Red LampThe PrefaceBehind the TimesHis First OperationA Straggler of '15The Third GenerationA False StartThe Curse of EveSweetheartsA Physiologist's WifeThe Case of Lady SannoxA Question of DiplomacyA Medical DocumentLot No. 249The Los Amigos FiascoThe Doctors of HoylandThe Surgeon TalksEssay on the Text
Appendices
Additional Stories added to Crowborough edition'Crabbe's Practice' (1884)'My Friend the Murderer' (1882)
Author's Edition preface to Round the Red Lamp (1903)
One-Act play adaptations'Foreign Policy' (1893)'Waterloo' (1894)
Early Medical Essays of Conan Doyle
'Gelseminum as a Poison', British Medical Journal (20 Sept 1879)'Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia', The Lancet (25 March 1882)'Life and Death in the Blood', Good Words (March 1883)'The Contagious Diseases Act', The Medical Times (16 June 1883)'American Medical Diplomas' The Evening News, Portsmouth (23 Sept 1884)'The Remote Effects of Gout', The Lancet (29 November 1884)'Compulsory Vaccination', The Evening Mail, Portsmouth (15 July 1887)'Compulsory Vaccination', The Hampshire County Times (27 July 1887)'The Consumption Cure', Daily Telegraph (20 Nov 1890)'Dr Koch and His Cure', Review of Reviews 2 (Dec 1890)
ApparatusAbbreviationsEmendations and VariationsExplanatory Notes