Regina Barreca

Includes an Introduction by Anne Perry and a New Afterword by Regina Barreca. Indisputably the greatest fictional detective of all time, Sherlock Holmes lives on--in films, on television, and of course through Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's inimitable craft. These twenty-two stories show Holmes at his brilliant best. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SPECKLED BANDA SCANDAL IN BOHEMIATHE RED-HEADED LEAGUETHE ADVENTURE OF THE BLUE CARBUNCLETHE NAVAL TREATYTHE FINAL PROBLEMTHE ADVENTURE OF THE DANCING MENTHE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHESTHE CROOKED MANTHE RESIDENT PATIENTTHE GREEK INTERPRETERTHE ADVENTURE OF THE NORWOOD BUILDERTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SOLITARY CYCLISTTHE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSETHE FIVE ORANGE PIPSTHE BOSCOMBE VALLEY MYSTERYTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONSTHE ADVENTURE OF THE PRIORY SCHOOLTHE MUSGRAVE RITUALTHE MAN WITH THE TWISTED LIPTHE ADVENTURE OF THE SECOND STAINTHE ADVENTURE OF THE ABBEY GRANGE

First published in 1999. Each volume in the Lit Book Series will contain a wide range of essays on a particular author, theme or genre. By offering a forum for oftentimes competing, but equally compelling, theoretical points of view within each volume, the editors hope to generate interest, debate, dissent, appreciation and attention for each volume’s topic. The Lit Book Series will provide a valuable venue for scholars, writers and general readers to encounter, examine, produce and discuss insightful, sound scholarship about important fields of study. This international collection of essays regards the work of Hélène Cixous with all the complexity that she herself brings to her engagement with literature and psychology. Cixous is well known as an interpreter of Freudian and Lacanian theories, especially those connecting gender and the production of language. She is also a noted writer of fiction and drama as well as a distinguished theorist of literary feminism.

With wit, humor, and an engaging style, Barreca considers the evolving roles of husbands and wives in American culture, and reveals how the static myths that many women cling to can lead to unhappiness in today's changing world.