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Wilkie Collins - (1824 - 1889)
(Full name William Wilkie Collins) English novelist, short story writer, travel writer, and playwright.
Considered a skillful manipulator of intricate plots, Collins is ...
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Biography EssayAlthough best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)—which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English dete...
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The English author William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) wrote intricately plotted novels of sensational intrigue which helped establish the conventions of modern detective fiction.Wilkie Collins was bor...
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"Make 'em cry, make 'em laugh, make 'em wait." This adage of Wilkie Collins epitomizes his success as the leading sensation novelist of Victorian England. Combining expert plotting with carefully desc...
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Although best known to modern readers as the author of The Woman in White (1860) and The Moonstone (1868)--which T. S. Eliot and Dorothy Sayers have called the best English detective story--Wilkie Col...
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Victorian fiction writer, essayist, and social commentator Wilkie Collins continues to perplex critics and entertain readers. Critics, pointing to his stereotyped characters, melodramatic plots, somet...
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In the following essay, Morris discusses women criminals in the novels of Wilkie Collins, and asserts that Collins portrays criminal behavior among women as a revolt against domestic violence, and by ...
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In the following essay, Heller examines the nineteenth-century division of sensation novels into "serious" or "popular" and "male" or "female." ...
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In the following essay, Frick discusses Collins's ambivalent treatment of fallen women in his novels.
Introduction
In her recent study of the Victorian heroine, Woman and the Demon, Nina Auerba...
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In the following essay, Rance investigates Collins's sensation novels in relation to the historical mood of 1860s England.
Recent manifestations of critical interest in Collins have not tended ...
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In the following essay, Perkins and Donaghy examine the subtle critique of Victorian gender conventions in The Woman in White.
The unsuspecting reader of Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White1 may...
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In the following essay, David argues that No Name's questioning of Victorian gender politics disrupts its conventional narrative discourse.
Whether Wilkie Collins was a feminist, deployed popul...
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In the following essay, Balée sees The Woman in White as a “subversion of Victorian sexual stereotypes.”
Can you look at Miss Halcombe and not see that she has the foresight and r...
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In the following essay, Milbank surveys Collins's sensation fiction, focusing particularly on his unconventional heroines and their ultimate subjugation to authorial and patriarchal authority.
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In the following excerpt, Thoms studies the thematic “quest for independence and identity” in Basil, viewing this early novel's foreshadowing of the principal issues in Collins&#x...
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In the following essay, Bernstein considers the gothic setting of The Woman in White and its relation to the novel's “historical narratives of class, gender, and genre.”
With The ...
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In the following essay, Allen offers an assessment of Collins's works as modern and enduring, rather than merely melodramatic and sensationalistic.
Wilkie Collins, the author of Victorian maste...
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In the following essay, Gruner evaluates The Moonstone's “scathing commentary” on the secrets and hidden sins of the Victorian family.
What brought good Wilkie's genius nig...
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In the following essay, Duncan explores Collins's representation of romantic imperialist discourse in The Moonstone.
Novel and Empire
Wilkie Collins's Moonstone (1868) is the sole mid-Vi...
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In the following essay, Williams analyzes The Woman in White in the context of Victorian gender ideology.
Immediately after he learns that the woman in white is in fact a woman at large, Walter Hartri...
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Wilkie Collins - (1824 - 1889)
William Wilkie Collins
(William) Wilkie Collins
Critical Essay by Virginia Morris
