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Wilkie Collins

The Complete Fiction

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

AvStephen Knight

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This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins’s. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within his works, illuminating Collins as more than a successful crime and sensation author, or the fortunate recipient of Dicken’s grand patronage, but as a hard-thinking and lively-writing part of the rich mid-Victorian literary scene. Overall, Collins is seen as a master of narratives which deal with social and personal issues that were much debated in his fifty-year authorial period. Close attention is paid to the events, themes, and characterization in his fiction, revealing his analytic vigor and the literary power of that period and context. Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins’ themes and arguments, this volume provides a key source of information and analysis on all Collins’ fiction.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-05-27
Mått152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt470 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
Antal sidor246
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032293523

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Stephen Knight studied at Oxford, then at the University of Sydney, where he completed a PhD on Langland’s Piers Plowman. He taught there for two decades and then worked at Melbourne, De Montfort and Cardiff. He has published widely on medieval and modern literature, with a special interest in widely-known modes such as crime fiction, Robin Hood studies and mid-nineteenth century popular fiction.

PrefaceIntroduction1.Short Stories 1843-611. Towards the Contemporary Short Story2. Tales of Troubled Women3. Problems for Families, Gentry, and Professionals4. Crime and Detection2. The Engagement with Novels – Ioláni to The Woman in White1. First Moves in Long Fiction2. Novels of Family and Mystery3. Extending the Range: Women, France, and Italy4. Crime and Mystery Fiction at Home5. Sensational Success: The Woman in White3. The Confident Novelist1. A Woman in Darkness: No Name2. `… if there is such a thing as chance?’: Armadale3. Into Mystery: The Moonstone4. Marriage and Its Obstacles: Man and Wife, Poor Miss Finch, Miss or Mrs?5. Return to Troubled Heroines: The New Magdalen, The Law and The Lady, The Two Destinies4. The Later Short Stories1. Introduction2. Beyond Crime Fiction3. Love, Loss, and Emotional Outcomes, from the Male Viewpoint4. Pressures and Claims Towards Marriage, from the Female Viewpoint.5.The Final Novels: Crime, Social Politics, Romance and Melodrama 1. Melodrama and Mystery2. Melodrama and Politics3. Romance and the Difficulties It Faces4. Family and Politics: Final Statements5. Conclusion