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The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

Author : Jenny Bourne Taylor
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139827332
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins written by Jenny Bourne Taylor and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2006-11-23 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521760747
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781107501621
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (16 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction written by Andrew Mangham and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107005132
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-18 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction

Author : Andrew Mangham
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107511690
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Sensation Fiction written by Andrew Mangham and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-17 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1859 the popular novelist Wilkie Collins wrote of a ghostly woman, dressed from head to toe in white garments, laying her cold, thin hand on the shoulder of a young man as he walked home late one evening. His novel The Woman in White became hugely successful and popularised a style of writing that came to be known as sensation fiction. This Companion highlights the energy, the impact and the inventiveness of the novels that were written in 'sensational' style, including the work of Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Mrs Henry Wood and Florence Marryat. It contains fifteen specially-commissioned essays and includes a chronology and a guide to further reading. Accessible yet rigorous, this Companion questions what influenced the shape and texture of the sensation novel, and what its repercussions were both in the nineteenth century and up to the present day.

The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646192
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel written by Deirdre David and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this Companion, first published in 2000, specially-commissioned essays examine the social and cultural context of Victorian fiction.

The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature

Author : Eva-Marie Kröller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107159628
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature written by Eva-Marie Kröller and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-08 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully revised second edition of this multi-author account of Canadian literature, from Aboriginal writing to Margaret Atwood.

Wilkie Collins in Context

Author : William Baker
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009037498
Total Pages : 675 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins in Context written by William Baker and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-07-31 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays by international scholars celebrates the 200th anniversary of Wilkie Collins's birth by exploring his unconventional life alongside his works, critical responses to his writings and their afterlife, and the literary and cultural contexts which shaped his fiction. Topics discussed include gender, science and medicine, music, law, race and empire, media adaptations, neo-Victorianism, disability, and ethics. Along with an analysis of his novels, the essays included also recognize the importance of his short stories, journalism, and contributions to Victorian theatre, most notably illuminating the strong connections between sensation fiction and melodrama, as well as exploring his influence on film and TV. Engaging with yet also delving far beyond the famous novels, this volume promotes awareness of Collins' remarkable and diverse writerly achievements and paints a vivid portrait of an author whose fluctuating reputation among contemporary critics stands in stark contrast to his immense and still-enduring popularity.

Wilkie Collins

Author : Stephen Knight
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000633144
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Wilkie Collins written by Stephen Knight and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture

Author : Francis O'Gorman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828444
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Victorian Culture written by Francis O'Gorman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-21 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian era produced artistic achievements, technological inventions and social developments that continue to shape how we live today. This Companion offers authoritative coverage of that period's culture and its contexts in a group of specially commissioned essays reflecting the current state of research in each particular field. Covering topics from music to politics, art to technology, war to domestic arts, journalism to science, the essays address multiple aspects of the Victorian world. The book explores what 'Victorian' has come to mean and how an idea of the 'Victorian' might now be useful to historians of culture. It explores too the many different meanings of 'culture' itself in the nineteenth century and in contemporary scholarship. An invaluable resource for students of literature, history, and interdisciplinary studies, this Companion analyses the nature of nineteenth-century British cultural life and offers searching perspectives on their culture as seen from ours.

Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel

Author : Nadine Böhm-Schnitker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000966488
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel written by Nadine Böhm-Schnitker and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Towards an Aisthetics of the Victorian Novel: Senses and Sensations establishes a new analytical method in the broader context of sensory studies in order to explain how the genre of the novel can impact on our perception of ourselves and our social contexts. Taking cultural literary studies ahead, the book re-integrates aesthetics – a much fraught concept in cultural studies that long favoured ‘popular’ over ‘high culture’ – into cultural studies as aisthetics in the word’s root sense of ‘perception’. Zooming in on period shifts and changes in taste spanning realism, sensation fiction and aestheticism, aisthetics reveals how these shifts also pertain to new ways of perceiving in selected novels by George Eliot, Wilkie Collins and Vernon Lee. Connecting Victorian and current literary theories, aisthetics helps explore the way in which the novel can shape the way we perceive the world, what remains excluded from the realm of the perceivable and how our conduct is consequently always also influenced by the dominant genres of our time.

The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914

Author : Joanne Shattock
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139828290
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to English Literature, 1830–1914 written by Joanne Shattock and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth century witnessed unprecedented expansion in the reading public and an explosive growth in the number of books and newspapers produced to meet its demands. These specially commissioned essays examine not only the full range and variety of texts that entertained and informed the Victorians, but also the boundaries of Victorian literature: the links and overlap with Romanticism in the 1830s, and the roots of modernism in the years leading up to the First World War. The Companion demonstrates how science, medicine and theology influenced creative writing and emphasizes the importance of the visual in painting, book illustration and in technological innovations from the kaleidoscope to the cinema. Essays also chart the complex and fruitful interchanges with writers in America, Europe and the Empire, highlighting the geographical expansion of literature in English. This Companion brings together the most important aspects of this prolific and popular period of English literature.

In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology

Author : Jenny Bourne Taylor
Publisher : Victorian Secrets
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 533 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology written by Jenny Bourne Taylor and published by Victorian Secrets. This book was released on with total page 533 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his 1852 novel Basil, Wilkie Collins' narrator concludes that "those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me ... are not to be written, but ... are acted and reacted, scene by scene, year by year, in the secret theatre of home." Taking this memorable quote as her starting point, Jenny Bourne Taylor demonstrates how Victorian psychology is central to an understanding of the complexity and vitality of Collins' fiction, exploring the boundaries of mind/body, sanity/madness, and consciousness/unconsciousness. Taylor's depth of research and thoughtful analysis establishes the importance of Collins as a writer whose fiction challenges the cultural constructions of the nineteenth century, and proves "the impossibility of drawing a precise boundary between fictional and psychological codes". Going beyond conventional discussion of the sensation genre, here we see the depth and range of Collins' writing and gain an understanding of its relation to Victorian medical thought. The study includes close readings of five novels: Basil (1852), The Woman in White (1859-60), No Name (1862-3), Armadale (1864-66), and The Moonstone (1868). Consideration is also given to Man and Wife (1870), The New Magdalen (1872), The Law and the Lady (1875), Jezebel's Daughter (1879), Heart and Science (1882-3), The Fallen Leaves (1879), and The Legacy of Cain (1889). CONTENTS Foreword by Andrew Mangham Introduction - Collins as a sensation novelist Chapter 1 - The psychic and the social: Boundaries of identity in nineteenth-century psychology Chapter 2 - Nervous fancies of hypochondriacal bachelors - Basil, and the problems of modern life Chapter 3 - The Woman in White - Resemblance and difference - patience and resolution Chapter 4 - Skins to jump into - Femininity as masquerade in No Name Chapter 5 - Armadale - The sensitive subject as palimpsest Chapter 6 - Lost parcel or hidden soul? Detecting the unconscious in The Moonstone Chapter 7 - Resistless influences - Degeneration and its negation in the later fiction

A Wilkie Collins Songbook

Author : Allan W. Atlas
Publisher : A-R Editions, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1987208366
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (872 download)

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Download or read book A Wilkie Collins Songbook written by Allan W. Atlas and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Wilkie Collins Songbook consists of twenty-seven “everyday pieces” (three of them in two different versions each) that either appear in the novels and short stories of the Victorian author Wilkie Collins (1824–89) or were inspired by them. There is an overture for a stage production on which Collins collaborated with Charles Dickens; a number of pieces that reflect the popularity of The Woman in White (1860), which rocketed Collins to superstardom; and, forming the heart of the anthology, twenty ballads, patriotic songs, and traditional tunes that would have been well known to Collins's English (and American) readers. Among the twenty-two composers represented are: Francesco Berger (a regular at Dickens’s Sunday-evening card games); the prolific Walter Burnot, whose business card read “Songs Written While You Wait”; Charles Dibdin, and John Davy, as well as four women: Frances Arkwright, Clara Angela Macirone, Virtue Millard, and the mysterious American called “The Veiled Lady.” In all, the songbook provides an informative and entertaining romp through the everyday music of “Wilkie’s World.”

The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction

Author : David Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521513375
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Popular Fiction written by David Glover and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-05 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900

Author : Martin Middeke
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110376717
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (13 download)

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Download or read book Handbook of the English Novel, 1830–1900 written by Martin Middeke and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Part I of this authoritative handbook offers systematic essays, which deal with major historical, social, philosophical, political, cultural and aesthetic contexts of the English novel between 1830 and 1900. The essays offer a wide scope of aspects such as the Industrial Revolution, religion and secularisation, science, technology, medicine, evolution or the increasing mediatisation of the lifeworld. Part II, then, leads through the work of more than 25 eminent Victorian novelists. Each of these chapters provides both historical and biographical contextualisation, overview, close reading and analysis. They also encourage further research as they look upon the work of the respective authors at issue from the perspectives of cultural and literary theory.

A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English

Author : Sherri L. Brown
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442277483
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English written by Sherri L. Brown and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-03-15 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Gothic began as a designation for barbarian tribes, was associated with the cathedrals of the High Middle Ages, was used to describe a marginalized literature in the late eighteenth century, and continues today in a variety of forms (literature, film, graphic novel, video games, and other narrative and artistic forms). Unlike other recent books in the field that focus on certain aspects of the Gothic, this work directs researchers to seminal and significant resources on all of its aspects. Annotations will help researchers determine what materials best suit their needs. A Research Guide to Gothic Literature in English covers Gothic cultural artifacts such as literature, film, graphic novels, and videogames. This authoritative guide equips researchers with valuable recent information about noteworthy resources that they can use to study the Gothic effectively and thoroughly.