{"id":139246,"date":"2018-07-05T08:00:55","date_gmt":"2018-07-05T12:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/?p=139246"},"modified":"2019-07-30T12:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-07-30T16:12:41","slug":"popularity-sherlock-holmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/2018\/07\/popularity-sherlock-holmes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Popularity of Sherlock Holmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pamela Bedore is an associate professor of English and writing coordinator at UConn\u2019s Avery Point campus, where she teaches a variety of classes including popular fiction. She also specializes in researching detective fiction, including her book <em>Dime Novels and the Roots of American Detective Fiction<\/em>. With the recent start of the sixth season of the modern Sherlock Holmes series &#8216;Elementary&#8217;, and the forthcoming Ethan Cohen comedy &#8216;Holmes and Watson,&#8217; which stars Will Ferrell as Holmes and John C. Reilly as Watson, Ken Best of the UConn360 podcast traveled to Avery Point to speak with her.<\/p>\n<p><em>For the full podcast and other episodes, visit\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast\">uconn.edu\/uconn360-podcast<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-139246-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PAM-BEDORE-EDIT-mp3.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PAM-BEDORE-EDIT-mp3.mp3\">https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/PAM-BEDORE-EDIT-mp3.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>English professor Pam Bedore discusses the role of Arthur Conan Doyle&#8217;s character in the evolution of detective fiction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":139161,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_crdt_document":"","wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_series":0,"wds_primary_attribution":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2226,2141,173],"tags":[],"magazine-issues":[],"coauthors":[1918],"class_list":["post-139246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-clas","category-podcast","category-uconn-avery-point","series-heard-here-uconn-360"],"pp_statuses_selecting_workflow":false,"pp_workflow_action":"current","pp_status_selection":"publish","acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-10 16:49:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139246"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152537,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139246\/revisions\/152537"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/139161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139246"},{"taxonomy":"magazine-issue","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/magazine-issues?post=139246"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.uconn.edu\/wp-rest\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=139246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}