Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xix, 207 pages)
ISBN:
9781139001243
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0521840384
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0521549663
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to literature
Content:
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.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Collins's career and the visual arts
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Early writing
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Collins's shorter fiction
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Collins and the sensation novel
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The Moonstone, detective fiction and forensic science
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Later novels
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Professional writer and the literary marketplace
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Marriage plot and its alternatives
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Collins and Victorian masculinity
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Collins and empire
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Disability and difference
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Collins and the theatre
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Afterlife of Wilkie Collins
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521840385
Additional Edition:
Druckausg. u.d.T. The Cambridge companion to Wilkie Collins Cambridge [u.a.] : Cambridge Univ. Press, 2006 ISBN 0521549663
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521840384
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521549660
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521840385
Language:
English
Subjects:
English Studies
Keywords:
Collins, Wilkie 1824-1889
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Aufsatzsammlung
DOI:
10.1017/CCOL0521840384
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