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Biographical studies on Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu, British fiction authors.
Author : Stewart Marsh Ellis
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Page : 390 pages
File Size : 38,91 MB
Release : 1931
Category : Literary Criticism
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Biographical studies on Wilkie Collins and Sheridan Le Fanu, British fiction authors.
Author : Maria K. Bachman
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 12,25 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781572332744
In the midst of a Victorian culture ingrained with strict social etiquette and societal norms, Wilkie Collins composed novels that contained asocial, even anarchic, impulses. A contemporary of Dickens, Collins creates a world more Kafkaesque than Dickensian, a world populated by doppelgangers, secret selves, oddballs, and grotesques. The essays of Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins's legacy beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins's works as "sensation novels," "detective novels," or even "popular fiction," all labels that carry with them pejorative connotations. This collection represents the range of Collins's aesthetic project from various critical perspectives. New methodological and theoretical approaches are applied both to him most popular and to his lesser-known works, giving the reader a broader picture of this multifaceted and undervalued writer The Editors: Maria K. Bachman in an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Newsletter, Literature and Psychology, The Dickensian, and Dickens Studies Annual. Don Richard Cox is a professor of English and associate dean at the University of Tennessee. His books include Sexuality andVictorian Literature (Tennessee), Arthur Conan Doyle, and Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Annotated Bibliography. He is the coeditor, with Maria Bachman, of an edition of Wilkie Collins's final novel, Blind Love
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 408 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 346 pages
File Size : 11,31 MB
Release : 1851
Category : Cornwall (England : County)
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Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 388 pages
File Size : 34,42 MB
Release : 1860
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Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 10,97 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3734020832
Reproduction of the original: The Evil Genius by Wilkie Collins
Author : William Baker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 16,2 MB
Release : 2002-03-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0313076278
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone,^R which T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel. He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and writer. The book begins with a narrative discussion of the contents of Collins's library and its auction. This introductory essay sheds light on the types of books he owned, his use of those texts in his writings, and the dispersion of his collection in 1890. The bulk of the volume provides annotated entries for each item from his library. Entries include publication and bibliographic information, descriptions from sale catalogs, information about the author of the item, citations of the book or author from Collins's letters, and information on the present location or subsequent history of the item. An appendix catalogs paintings and artwork in Collins's possession at the time of his death.
Author : Robert S. Paul
Publisher : SIU Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780809317226
Robert S. Paul suggests that the reason detective fiction has won legions of readers may be that "the writer of detective fiction, without conscious intent, appeals directly to those moral and spiritual roots of society unconsciously affirmed and endorsed by the readers." Because detective stories deal with crime and punishment they cannot help dealing implicitly with theological issues, such as the reality of good and evil, the recognition that humankind has the potential for both, the nature of evidence (truth and error), the significance of our existence in a rational order and hence the reality of truth, and the value of the individual in a civilized society. Paul argues that the genre traces its true beginning to the Enlightenment and documents two related but different reactions to the theological issues involved: first, a line of writers who are generally positive in relation to their cultural setting, such as Edgar Allan Poe, Wilkie Collins, Conan Doyle; and second, a reactionary strain, critical of the prevailing culture, that begins in William Godwin s Caleb Williams and continues through the anti-heroic writers like Arsene Lupin to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammett, and John MacDonald. "
Author : P. D. James
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 14,53 MB
Release : 2011-05-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0307743136
P. D. James, the undisputed queen of mystery, gives us an intriguing, inspiring and idiosyncratic look at the genre she has spent her life perfecting. Examining mystery from top to bottom, beginning with such classics as Charles Dickens's Bleak House and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White, and then looking at such contemporary masters as Colin Dexter and Henning Mankell, P. D. James goes right to the heart of the genre. Along the way she traces the lives and writing styles of Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and many more. Here is P.D. James discussing detective fiction as social history, explaining its stylistic components, revealing her own writing process, and commenting on the recent resurgence of detective fiction in modern culture. It is a must have for the mystery connoisseur and casual fan alike.
Author : Wilkie Collins
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Page : 566 pages
File Size : 26,50 MB
Release : 1865
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