Sensational things : souvenirs, keepsakes, and mementos in Wilkie Collins's fiction / Sabina Fazli.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fazli, Sabina, author.

Series:

Anglistische Forschungen ; Band 464.

Anglistische Forschungen ; Band 464

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Collins, Wilkie.

Souvenirs (Keepsakes).

Themes, motives.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 259 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, [2019]

Summary:

In the Victorian sensation novel, things that bear witness to secrets, guilt, and past crimes proliferate. These pieces of evidence often belong to the category of the keepsake and come in the shape of jewels, textiles, or conserved fragments of cloth, hair, or paper, forming part of the novel's object world. This study examines how Wilkie Collins's successful sensational plots are entwined with the histories and properties of the small, overlooked objects that bring past events into the present. It offers readings of Collins's texts that adapt concepts from material culture studies and brings them to bear on literary analysis. The readings thus complement approaches based on gender, race, and contemporary medical discourses current in scholarship on Collins and integrates them with perspectives on keepsakes as a productive class of things in Victorian sensation fiction.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-259) and index.

ISBN:

9783825378257

382537825X