Wilkie Collins
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Wilkie Collins
（New casebooks）
Macmillan, 1998
- hardcover
- paperback
Available at / 25 libraries
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Hiroshima University Central Library, Interlibrary Loan
hardcover930.268:C-84/HL1533001500421630
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Note
Bibliography: p. 271-274
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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hardcover ISBN 9780333657706
Description
This selection of eleven essays charts the most important aspects of the developing debate about Collins's fiction in the last twenty years. Employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches - including reader response theory, narratology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural materialism and a range of feminisms - these essays examine Collins's fiction from several perspectives: historical, psychological, structural, generic and political (including gender politics). They focus on an author preoccupied with the production of social and psychological identity, and with issues of class, gender and power. If there is a single issue which permeates this collection, it is the question of the subversiveness of Collins's fiction or, alternatively, its retreat from and/or containment of a radical social critique or subversive impulses. The pros and cons of this debate are explored further in Lyn Pykett's detailed and wide-ranging introduction.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements.- General Editor's Preface.- Introduction
- L.Pykett.- What is 'Sensational' about the 'Sensational Novel'
- P.Brantlinger.- The Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in White
- U.C.Koepflmacher.- The Sensationalism of The Woman in White
- W.Kendrick.- Reading Detection in The Woman in White
- M.M.Hennely, Jr.- Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White
- A.Cvetkovich.- Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's No Name
- D.David.- Armdale.- The Sensitive Subject as Palimpsest
- J.B.Taylor.- Dreams, Transformations and Literature: The Implications of Detective Fiction
- A.D.Hutter.- From roman policier to roman-police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- D.A.Miller.- Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone
- E.R.Gruner.- Blank Spaces: Ideological tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone
- T.Heller.- Further Reading.- Notes on the Contributors.- Index.
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paperback ISBN 9780333657713
Description
This selection of 11 essays charts the most important aspects of the developing debate about Wilkie Collins's fiction in the last 20 years. The book employs a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, including reader response theory, narratology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural materialism, and a range of feminisms. The essays examine Collins's fiction from several perspectives: structural, generic and political (including gender politics). They focus on an author preoccupied with the production of social and psychological identity, and with issues of class, gender, and power. If there is a single issue which permeates this collection, it is the question of the subversiveness of Collins's fiction or, alternatively, its retreat from and/or containment of a radical social critique or subversive impulses. The pros and cons of this debate are explored further in Lyn Pykett's introduction.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements - General Editor's Preface - Introduction
- L.Pykett - What is 'Sensational' about the 'Sensational Novel'
- P.Brantlinger - The Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in White
- U.C.Koepflmacher - The Sensationalism of The Woman in White
- W.Kendrick - Reading Detection in The Woman in White
- M.M.Hennely, Jr. - Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White
- A.Cvetkovich - Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's No Name
- D.David - Armdale - The Sensitive Subject as Palimpsest
- J.B.Taylor - Dreams, Transformations and Literature: The Implications of Detective Fiction
- A.D.Hutter - From roman policier to roman-police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- D.A.Miller - Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone
- E.R.Gruner - Blank Spaces: Ideological tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone
- T.Heller - Further Reading - Notes on the Contributors - Index
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