Wilkie Collins : the complete fiction

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Wilkie Collins : the complete fiction

Stephen Knight

(Routledge studies in nineteenth-century literature)

Routledge, 2023 [i.e. 2022]

  • : hbk

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [236]-240) and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Preface Introduction 1.Short Stories 1843-61 1. Towards the Contemporary Short Story 2. Tales of Troubled Women 3. Problems for Families, Gentry, and Professionals 4. Crime and Detection 2. The Engagement with Novels - Iolani to The Woman in White 1. First Moves in Long Fiction 2. Novels of Family and Mystery 3. Extending the Range: Women, France, and Italy 4. Crime and Mystery Fiction at Home 5. Sensational Success: The Woman in White 3. The Confident Novelist 1. A Woman in Darkness: No Name 2. `... if there is such a thing as chance?': Armadale 3. Into Mystery: The Moonstone 4. 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 Destinies 4. The Later Short Stories 1. Introduction 2. Beyond Crime Fiction 3. Love, Loss, and Emotional Outcomes, from the Male Viewpoint 4. Pressures and Claims Towards Marriage, from the Female Viewpoint. 5.The Final Novels: Crime, Social Politics, Romance and Melodrama 1. Melodrama and Mystery 2. Melodrama and Politics 3. Romance and the Difficulties It Faces 4. Family and Politics: Final Statements 5. Conclusion

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