著者

中西 裕 Yutaka NAKANISHI

出版者

昭和女子大学近代文化研究所

雑誌

学苑 = Gakuen (ISSN:13480103)

巻号頁・発行日

no.964, pp.1-11, 2021-02-01

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Arthur Conan Doyle abandoned Catholicism early on and later devoted himself to spiritualism. Looking at the composers mentioned in the Sherlock Holmes stories, many are Protestants, four of whom, Mendelssohn, Meyerbeer, Offenbach, and Wagner, wrote music using Martin Luther’s Ein’ feste Burg ist unser Gott. He also portrays the Huguenots who, after being chased out of France, resettled in the United States in The Refugees: A Tale of Two Continents. Doyle had a favorable view of Protestantism, especially the Lutheran and Huguenot varieties.