{"id":92,"date":"2012-07-18T15:11:55","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T15:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/?p=92"},"modified":"2024-09-03T12:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T11:02:44","slug":"a-scandal-in-bohemia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/2012\/07\/18\/a-scandal-in-bohemia\/","title":{"rendered":"A Scandal in Bohemia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of Class Conclusions (I&#8217;ll write up a discursive version as soon as possible &#8211; I&#8217;m only putting this up temporarily\u00a0to help you\u00a0compare Conan Doyle&#8217;s original &#8220;A Scandal in Bohemia&#8221; with <em>A Scandal in Belgravia<\/em> (BBC1, 2011).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d00000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #d00000;\">Space<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Irene has own space \u2013 own house (very different from earlier women) Bryony Lodge, Serpentine Avenue \u2013 Garden of Eden \u2013 Eve? Serpent? \u2022She manipulates space outside \u2013 New Woman \u2013 identity not just tied to home \u2022She hides in public space (she inverts the secret spaces) \u2022Fluid \u2013 more equal \u2022Sherlock Holmes city not zoned so rigorously as <em>Mysteries of London<\/em> \u2022Sherlock\u2019s area \u2013 the homosocial masculine space of 221B information sharing &#8211; he can invade her space but not she his (she can only get to outside the door) \u2022The gendering of space<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #d00000;\">Gender<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Is Irene&#8217;s femininity viewed differently than if SH himself had narrated it (SH has low opinion of women\u2019s wit- until end)? \u00a0\u2022Watson\u2019s masculine narrative control \u2022Professional masculinity v aristocratic \u2013Intellectual and goal oriented v. wealth and objectification of the world \u2013Irene chooses professional \u2022Irene likes freedom of dressing as a man \u2022The Woman = her name? What Sherlock believes a woman should be, the only one worth mentioning \u2022 The Woman V . women\u00a0 (contradiction)<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #d00000;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #d00000;\">Economics<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u2022Opposite of Sweeney Todd \u2013Money is only a means to achieving satisfaction \u2013 \u2022Sherlock wants to be paid the picture not money \u2022<strong>The price of information is desire<\/strong> [what does this mean? It&#8217;s a wonderfully ambiguous phrase!] \u2022Economics also = control of circ of info \u2022Reputation as information \u2022Value depends on satisfaction not the labour that goes into it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary of Class Conclusions (I&#8217;ll write up a discursive version as soon as possible &#8211; I&#8217;m only putting this up temporarily\u00a0to help you\u00a0compare Conan Doyle&#8217;s original &#8220;A Scandal in Bohemia&#8221; with A Scandal in Belgravia &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[39,49,89,91,92,93,105,107],"class_list":["post-92","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sherlock-holmes","tag-economics","tag-gender","tag-scandal-in-bohemia","tag-sexuality","tag-sherlock-holmes","tag-space","tag-victorian-literature","tag-victorian-popular-literature"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92\/revisions\/16074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.gre.ac.uk\/andrewking\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}