Round the Red Lamp
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.
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Content
- Intro
- General Editor's Preface
- Acknowledgements
- A Chronology of the Life of Arthur Conan Doyle
- Introduction
- Genesis and Composition
- Publication History
- Reception
- Medical Context
- Literary Doctoring
- The Realism versus Romance Debate
- Round the Red Lamp
- The Preface
- Behind the Times
- His First Operation
- A Straggler of '15
- The Third Generation
- A False Start
- The Curse of Eve
- Sweethearts
- A Physiologist's Wife
- The Case of Lady Sannox
- A Question of Diplomacy
- A Medical Document
- Lot No. 249
- The Los Amigos Fiasco
- The Doctors of Hoyland
- The Surgeon Talks
- An Essay on the Text
- Appendices
- 1 Additional Stories added to the Crowborough Edition
- 'Crabbe's Practice' (1884)
- 'My Friend the Murderer' (1882)
- 2 Preface to the Author's Edition (1903)
- 3 One-Act Play Adaptations
- Foreign Policy (1893)
- Waterloo (1894)
- 4 Conan Doyle's Essays and Letters in the Medical Press
- 'Gelseminum as a Poison' (1879)
- 'Notes on a Case of Leucocythaemia' (1882)
- 'Life and Death in the Blood' (1883)
- 'The Contagious Diseases Act' (1883)
- 'American Medical Diplomas' (1884)
- 'The Remote Effects of Gout' (1884)
- 'Compulsory Vaccination' (1887)
- 'Compulsory Vaccination' (1887)
- 'The Consumption Cure' (1890)
- 'Dr Koch and His Cure' (1890)
- Apparatus
- Abbreviations used in the Apparatus
- Emendations and Variations
- Explanatory Notes
