Full Description
An often overlooked collection in Arthur Conan Doyle's career, these tales actually track the vital moment in his life when he decided to shift careers from provincial medic to celebrated London author
Detailed introduction, notes and scholarly apparatus
Appendixes that collect extra medical tales, Conan Doyle's early contributions to the medical press and the two one-act plays that he produced from two of the stories, including one of his greatest successes for the stage, Waterloo
Introduction provides the medical context to help understand its place in Conan Doyle's career
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.
Contents
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
