Wilkie Collins in Context
Wilkie Collins in Context

Author: William Baker

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-07-31

Total Pages: 675

ISBN-13: 1009037498

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This collection of essays by international scholars celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wilkie Collins's birth by exploring his unconventional life alongside his works, critical responses to his writings and their afterlife, and the literary and cultural contexts which shaped his fiction. Topics discussed include gender, science and medicine, music, law, race and empire, media adaptations, neo-Victorianism, disability, and ethics. Along with an analysis of his novels, the essays included also recognize the importance of his short stories, journalism, and contributions to Victorian theatre, most notably illuminating the strong connections between sensation fiction and melodrama, as well as exploring his influence on film and TV. Engaging with yet also delving far beyond the famous novels, this volume promotes awareness of Collins' remarkable and diverse writerly achievements and paints a vivid portrait of an author whose fluctuating reputation among contemporary critics stands in stark contrast to his immense and still-enduring popularity.

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Author: Lyn Pykett

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2005-09-08

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0191606227

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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spanning nearly forty years he wrote over twenty novels, several plays, and numerous short stories in which his preoccupations with Victorian society are revealed. Irregular liaisons, the chaotic state of the marriage laws, social and psychological identity, and the interconnections between respectable society and the world of crime are recurring themes in Collins's fiction. Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life, a changing literary marketplace, and the changing worlds of nineteenth-century Britain, as well as his enduring legacy for modern writers and interpreters. The book includes a chronology of Collins's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Wilkie Collins in Context
Wilkie Collins in Context

Author: William Baker

Publisher:

Published: 2023

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781009038157

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"This international collection of essays celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wilkie Collins's birth by exploring his multi-faceted impact on nineteenth-century culture. Examining his lesser-known and shorter works alongside the great novels, this volume provides new perspectives for both students and admirers fascinated by his complex fictions"--

Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)
Wilkie Collins (Authors in Context)

Author: Lyn Pykett

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009-01-29

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 0199556113

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Lyn Pykett offers a lively exploration of the novels of Wilkie Collins, author of the first recognised detective novel

The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins
The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

Author: Jenny Bourne Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2006-11-23

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1139827332

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Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

Unequal Partners
Unequal Partners

Author: Lillian Nayder

Publisher: Cornell University Press

Published: 2018-07-05

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 1501729128

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In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary "satellites," and charts Collins's development as an increasingly significant and independent author. The pair's collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayder's discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep.

Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing
Thinking about Other People in Nineteenth-Century British Writing

Author: Adela Pinch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2010-07-08

Total Pages:

ISBN-13: 1139489089

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Nineteenth-century life and literature are full of strange accounts that describe the act of one person thinking about another as an ethically problematic, sometimes even a dangerously powerful thing to do. In this book, Adela Pinch explains why, when, and under what conditions it is possible, or desirable, to believe that thinking about another person could affect them. She explains why nineteenth-century British writers - poets, novelists, philosophers, psychologists, devotees of the occult - were both attracted to and repulsed by radical or substantial notions of purely mental relations between persons, and why they moralized about the practice of thinking about other people in interesting ways. Working at the intersection of literary studies and philosophy, this book both sheds new light on a neglected aspect of Victorian literature and thought, and explores the consequences of, and the value placed on, this strand of thinking about thinking.

Critical Companion to Jane Austen
Critical Companion to Jane Austen

Author: William Baker

Publisher: Infobase Publishing

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 657

ISBN-13: 1438108494

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Jane Austen has been one of the world's most popular writers for 200 years and is best known for her works Pride and Prejudice, Emma, and Sense and Sensibility.

The Moonstone
The Moonstone

Author: Wilkie Collins

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2012-03-27

Total Pages: 433

ISBN-13: 0486113930

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Suspense, humor, and romance abound in this 1868 mystery, in which a gem stolen from a Hindu shrine resurfaces in an English country home — with a trio of watchful Brahmins hot on its trail.