Containing Otherness Through Rational Detection: Feminine Characters in Arthur Conan Doyle

Elena Maria Emadi

doi:10.2478/v10320-012-0048-z

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Containing Otherness Through Rational Detection: Feminine Characters in Arthur Conan Doyle

Gender Studies

Volume 11 (2012): Issue 1 (November 2012)

By: Elena Maria Emadi

Open Access

|Feb 2013

Abstract

The present paper is intended to focus on the feminine characters in The Hound of the Baskervilles and The Sussex Vampire. Starting from the analysis of imagery in these two texts I shall exemplify traits of the complex process of encoding otherness

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