Format:
Book
Title:
Wilkie Collins / Lillian Nayder.
Author:
Nayder, Lillian.
Call Number:
823 C697znay
Publisher, Date:
New York : Twayne Publishers ; London : Prentice Hall International, c1997.
Description:
xxi, 174 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Summary:
"Best known for the Woman in White and The Moonstone, and largely credited with developing the first detective and sensation novels in English literature, Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) has in recent years been the subject of renewed popular and critical interest. In five decades the prolific Collins produced more than twenty-five novels and novellas and five collections of short stories and essays; adapted, wrote, or produced more than twelve plays; and published a travel book, a biography, and dozens of journal articles. Also an outspoken social critic, Collins generated considerable controversy in both his works and his life - in writing about class and gender inequities, marriage law reform, and the crimes of British imperialism, for example, and in choosing to live with rather than marry the two women he partnered over the course of his life, and in fathering three children with one of them."--BOOK JACKET. "In Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder presents the first book-length study of Collins's life and the full range of his works - the novels, plays, short fiction, and nonfiction - in historical context. Whereas critics usually label Collins as either radical or reactionary, Nayder argues for a multifaceted view that takes into account Collins's simultaneous and complex stance as radical reformer and upholder of the patriarchal, imperial order."--BOOK JACKET.
Series:
Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 544
Twayne's English authors series ; TEAS 544.
Subjects:
Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and society -- Great Britain -- History -- 19th century.
Contents:
Ch. 1. Biographical Sketch -- Ch. 2. Literary Apprenticeship -- Ch. 3. Investigating Social Boundaries: Gender, Class, and Detection in Hide and Seek, The Dead Secret, and The Law and the Lady -- Ch. 4. Sensation Fiction and Marriage Law Reform: Wives and Property in The Woman in White, No Name, and Man and Wife -- Ch. 5. Reverse Colonization and Imperial Guilt: Representations of Empire in Armadale, The Moonstone, and The New Magdalen -- Ch. 6. Conclusion: The Noncanonical Collins.
ISBN:
0805770593 (alk. paper)