Wilkie Collins / Lyn Pykett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pykett, Lyn.

Series:

Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press). Authors in context.

Oxford world's classics. Authors in context

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889.

Collins, Wilkie.

Novelists, English--19th century--Biography.

Novelists, English.

Authors and publishers--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Authors and publishers.

Literature publishing--Great Britain--History--19th century.

Literature publishing.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 1860's. However, in a literary career spanning almost forty years he wrote many other works, and 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. - ;Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; A Chronology of Wilkie Collins; Abbreviations; 1. The Life of Wilkie Collins; 2. The Social Context; 3. The Literary Context; 4. Masters, Servants, and Married Women: Class and Social Mobility in Collins's Novels; 5. Sex, Crime, Madness, and Empire; 6. Psychology and Science in Collins's Novels; 7. Recontextualizing Collins: The Afterlife of Collins's Novels; Notes; Further Reading; Websites; Film and Television Adaptations; Index;

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [227]-[243]) and index.

ISBN:

9786612268434

0-19-151786-0

1-282-26843-0

1-4356-0945-X