【正文】 work, presenting the London where the gentleman in Victorian Era, Holmes lived. And it will make a full understanding to the London of Victorian Era. It is significant to study the London of Victorian Era in the tales of Sherlock Holmes. This thesis will recover and reunderstand to the history. The author wants to show respect to the writer and his work. At the same time, it is a salute to Mr. Sherlock Holmes across time and space. And this thesis will be divided into four parts as follows: The first part mainly introduces the writer, Conan Doyle, the tales of Sherlock Holmes and shows this thesis‘ background, significance and Structure. The second part is literature review. It concludes the previous studies not only on the tales of Sherlock Holmes, but also on London in Victorian Era. It will summarize the experiences of Chinese and foreign scholars in this field and present their advantages and short points. The next part is the key ponent of this thesis. The third part is an analysis on Victorian London in Conan Doyle‘s tales of Sherlock Holmes. And it will be divided into four parts. The first part in it is the basic image of Victorian London. It analyzes the basic appearance of the London in Victorian Era from all the descriptions in the work. In other words, it presents the surface of the London in that time. The second part in it is the defects of Victorian London. In this section, it will show the society problems in London of Victorian Era, presenting their influences to the city, and making a decipherment to the defects in the city. The third part in it is the advantages of Victorian London. According to the large numbers of descriptions in Conan Doyle‘s tales of Sherlock Holmes, it analyzes the advantages in London, and tries to find out the invisible side of the city in Victorian Era. The fourth part is an overall image of Victorian London. It will summary the image of Victorian London according to the analyses of Conan Doyle‘s tales of Sherlock Holmes in this thesis. The last part serves as a conclusion of this thesis and presents a concrete Victorian London. 寧波大學(xué)科學(xué)技術(shù)學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文） 9 2 Literature Review Previous Studies on the London of Victorian Era This thesis refers to the London of Victorian Era, and mits to recover the original image of the London in Victorian Era. So it is necessary to summarize the previous studies on the London of Victorian Era. The foreign scholars make full studies in the field. Sally Mitchell focuses on the daily Victorian life. Her study states small and provides the detailed and perfect data about the Victorian Era in all directions between 1837 and 1901. As the writer said in her work—Daily Life in Victorian England, ―In addition to conveying the concrete and physical texture of daily life, I have tried to answer many of the questions that high school and college students generally ask and to clear up some mon misapprehensions about the class system, money, marriage, the laws of inheritance, and the social importance of religion.‖ (Sally Mitchell, 1996: 15) So there are enough evidences of the London in Victorian Era in this book. Lee Jackson studies the Victorian London with an interesting method. His monograph, A Dictionary of Victorian London: an AZ of the Great Metropolis, lists the most abundant particulars in Victorian London brilliantly and effectively. He expresses in the monograph, ―I hope many of the topics covered will be surprising: from plasterofparis pornography hawked on the streets, to the world39。 London 寧波大學(xué)科學(xué)技術(shù)學(xué)院本科畢業(yè)設(shè)計（論文） IV Contents 1 Introduction.................................................................................................................... 5 Introduction to Arthur Conan Doyle ................................................................................ 5 Introduction to the Tales of Sherlock Holmes .................................................................... 6 Introduction to This Thesis ............................................................................................ 6 2 Literature Review............................................................................................................ 9 Previous Studies on the London of Victorian Era .............................................................. 9 Previous Studies on the Tales of Sherlock Holmes ........................................................... 10 Summary of the Previous Studies.................................................................................. 13 3 An Analysis on Victorian London in Conan Doyle‘s Tales of Sherlock Holmes ...................... 14 The Basic Image of Victorian London ........................................................................... 14 Public Security ........................................................................................................ 15 Economy ................................................................................................................ 16 Science ................................................................................................................... 17 Summary ................................................................................................................ 18 A City with Hidden Problems ....................................................................................... 19 The High Crime Rate................................................................................................ 20 The Ignorance on Orphaned Children ......................................................................... 23 The Greed for Wealth ............................................................................................... 25 Summary ............................................................