Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays / edited by Andrew Mangham.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mangham, Andrew, 1979-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.

Collins, Wilkie.

Genre:

Libros electrónicos.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 284 p. ) ill., ports.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This eclectic collection brings together a range of critical voices, from varying disciplinary backgrounds, to comment on the life and works of Wilkie Collins. A close friend of Dickens, Collins engaged with some of the nineteenth century’s most influential ideas and cultural developments. As this collection makes clear, he formed interesting connections with key figures in literature, art, theatre, medicine, and the law. As a result, his works often engaged with the period’s most influenti.

Contents:

Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller

A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux

Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou

Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass

The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy

Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham

Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox

Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb

Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes

Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge

The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir

Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law

The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker

Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson

Sensation drama? : Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood

Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier

Afterword /Janice M. Allan.

Notes:

"This book is a result of the "Wilkie Collins Conference" held at the University of Sheffield in 2005"--P. [xii].

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Descripción basada en metadatos suministrados por el editor y otras fuentes.

ISBN:

1-282-02994-0

9786612029943

1-4438-0223-9

OCLC:

815767199