| Edition |
1st ed. |
| Description |
xxviii, 386 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Series |
Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 41
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Tennessee studies in literature ; v. 41.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction : The real Wilkie Collins / Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox -- Fatal newness : basil, art, and the origins of sensation fiction / Tim Dolin and Lucy Dougan -- Framed and hung : Collins and the economic beauty of the manly artist / Dennis Denisoff -- "Bolder with her lover in the dark": Collins and disabled women's sexuality / Martha Stoddard Holmes -- Chemical seductions : exoticism, toxicology, and the female poisoner in Armadale and The legacy of Cain / Piya Pal-Lapinski -- Marian's moustache : bearded ladies, hermaphrodites, and intersexual collage in The woman in white / Richard Collins -- The Crystal Palace, Imperialism, and the "Struggle for Existence": Victorian evolutionary discourse in Collins's The woman in white / Gabrielle Ceraldi -- Fosco Lives! / A. D. Hutter -- Outlandish English subjects in The moonstone / Timothy L. Carens -- "Blue like me": Collins, poor Miss Finch, and the construction of racial identity / Lillian Nayder -- Plain faces, weird cases : domesticating the law in Collins's The law and the lady and The trial of Madeleine Smith / Karin Jacobson -- Collins, race, and slavery / Audrey Fisch -- Yesterday's sensations : modes of publication and narrative form in Collins's late novels / Graham Law -- Afterword : masterpiece theatre and Ezra Jennings's Hair : some reflections on where we've been and where we're going in Collins Studies / Tamar Heller. |
| Subject |
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism.
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Detective and mystery stories, English. |
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Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism.
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Psychological fiction, English. |
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Sensationalism in literature.
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Sensationalism in literature. |
| Added Author |
Bachman, Maria K., 1963-
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Cox, Don Richard.
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| ISBN |
1572332743 hardcover acid-free paper |
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