Unhistorical

Summary: "Unhistorical draws on historical narrative, confessional poetry, and detective fiction to tell the story of a contemporary romantic relationship that begins in Scotland and falls apart in America, as the narrator finds herself in the role of spectator to her partner's genius. Many of these poems draw from the elegiac tradition, following a speaker who is, at turns, tourist in and historian of a landscape that is foreign to them. The middle section of this manuscript, entitled 'The Resurrectionists, ' follows an alternate version of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Holmes and Watson as they journey to solve a mystery in Scotland while grappling with their own anguished friendship"--

Record details

ISBN: 1629221104
ISBN: 9781629221106
ISBN: 1629221090
ISBN: 9781629221090
Physical Description: 1 online resource (62 pages)
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Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Akron, Ohio : The University of Akron Press, 2019.
Copyright: ©2019

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:	Your twenties -- Leitmotif -- After image -- Portraiture -- "Tell me what you want from me" -- Folly -- Forever -- Orphic hymn -- A gate -- We didn't see it at first, but after that we saw it all the time -- National Health Service -- Evidence -- Portions -- Self-portrait as John Watson -- Watson's diary (I) -- Holmes gives a demonstration of his methods -- From the adventure of the hooded woman -- 221b Baker Street, in repose -- Self-portrait as black moodbrown study -- From the adventure of the hooded woman -- Watson's diary (II) -- From the adventure of the hooded woman -- Self-portrait as Morocco case -- Watson takes a client in Holmes's absence -- Holmes, on relief -- Performance -- Self-portrait as "the final problem" -- Holmes, on spiritualism -- Watson's diary (III) -- Holmes, on withdrawal -- Watson's diary (IV) -- Love poem -- Unhistorical -- Exceptions -- Games -- At the Wisconsin State Fair -- Salad days -- Relationship with textiles and barter -- Landscape with marriage -- Years later -- Not a question -- Apologia -- His last bow, 1919 -- Recognition -- Self-portrait as Sherlock Holmes.
Restrictions on Access Note:	NLC staff and students only.
Source of Description Note:	Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on November 26, 2019).