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Sherlock Holmes Meets Father Brown

1552461882

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Accardo MD, Pasquale; John Peterson; Geir Hasnes

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During a century of diverse Sherlockian studies, close detailed attention to the almost contemporary Father Brown stories of G.K. Chesterton remained in its infancy. Brownian researches have begun to appear sporadically in the last two decades. The purpose of the present volume is to collect some of the fruits of these infant researches in order to stimulate a greater appreciation of the significance of Father Brown to the history of detective fiction as well as one aspect of the subtle and often under-estimated fictional art of GKC. While some of the material herein collected has appeared previously in other forms not now readily available to the scholar, much of it has been newly commissioned for this volume. Comparative studies on both Sherlock Holmes and Father Brown are especially apropos given the friendly relationship between their creators, Arthur Conan Doyle and Gilbert Keith Chesterton. Indeed, Father Brown was a composite of both an homage to Holmes and of a criticism of his more restrictive methods. Situating Brownian criticism in direct contiguity with the paradigmatic Sherlockian model opens a whole new area for Holmesian studies. This is a tactic which purists have been reluctant to adopt since they adopt the position that in contrast to other fictional detectives Holmes is a real historical character. To compare him with a fictional character would undermine their basic resupposition. However, since Father Brown is just as credible as a real historical character, nothing is to be lost and much to be gained by studies such as appear in the present volume. Since one of the mainstays of Sherlockiana has long been the pastiche, several of these with Father Brown (and sometimes with Holmes) are attempted. Essays on John Dickson Carr and some medical aspects of Conan Doyle have also found their way into the pages of this collection. The essays in the present volume do not always agree with one another, and that in itself should invite further discussion. PASQUALE ACCARDO, M.D., is a native of Brooklyn where he graduated from Xaverian High School, St. John’s University, and Downstate Medical Center of the State University of New York. Dr. Accardo has authored and coauthored over two hundred publications in the field of developmental disabilities, and he has written and edited over two dozen volumes. He has also published in The Chesterton Review and The Baker Street Journal. He is just beginning work on preparing The Annotated Father Brown, the first complete electronic edition of the annotated corpus. GEIR HASNES completed his degree in civil engineering of electronics in 1982 at the Norwegian Institute for Scientific and Industrial Research at the University of Trondheim. He works in telecommunications and has had a long interest in the writings of G.K. Chesterton. In 1991 he edited and published a recently rediscovered Father Brown story, The Mask of Midas (Trondheim: Classica). He has spent over a decade preparing an updated Chesterton bibliography to replace John Sullivan’s seminal work. JOHN PETERSON was born in Evanston, Illinois on July 1, 1933. He received his Bachelor’s and Master s degrees from Marquette University in the 1950’s with majors in English and Philosophy. He spent most of his working career in business, including 20 years in Client Service for the Leo Burnett Company in Chicago, Illinois. He served on the Board of Directors of the American Advertising Federation, Washington, D.C., from 1982 to 1988. He currently serves as publisher of Gilbert! The Magazine of G.K. Chesterton for the G.K. Chesterton Institute. He and his wife of 46 years have four children and five grandchildren. He has authored (some under his nom de plume “Gramps”) more than fifty papers and chapters on Chesterton’s most famous detective, Father Brown.

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