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The Sensation Fiction of Wilkie Collins
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The Early Life and Literary Career of Wilkie Collins
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Crime and subversion in the later fiction of Wilkie Collins
Although some good work on Collins is now beginning to emerge, complex and central elements in his fiction require fuller exploration. More consideration is due to the development of Collins's thinking and fictional techniques in the lesser-known novels, since out of a total of thirty-four …
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Jezebel's Daughters: A Study of Wilkie Collins and His Female Villains
The term "feminist," when applied to Wilkie Collins, implies he was concerned with rectifying the oppression of women in domestic life as well as with promoting equal rights between the sexes. This study explores Collins the "feminist" by analyzing his portrayals of women, particularly his most …
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Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers: A Study in the Rhetoric of Authorship
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Symptomatic writings: prefigurations of Freudian theories and models of the mind in the fiction of Sheridan Le Fanu, Wilkie Collins and George Eliot
… the writings of Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873), Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) and George Eliot (1819-1880) anticipate aspects of the works of Sigmund Freud (1856-1939). It argues that psychoanalytic theories were a product of their time, finding their ancestry in Victorian psychological, …
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Anthony Trollope the Art of Illusion in His Fiction
… favorite chair in the Garrick Club, Thackeray, Wilkie Collins and other literary friends might well expect to hear a roaring discourse on the effect that art trends, continental divisions, and general world conditions can have on a writer’s popularity. For Anthony Trollope’s literary reputation …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… work of Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, my project traces what I suggest is a particularly Victorian desire to empirically account for the material facts of the world and a simultaneous reluctance to abandon a sense of moral certainty that can be …
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Privately deviant, publicly disciplined: the violent seizure of female narratives in The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, The Woman in White, and Lady Audley’s Secret
… their patriarchal society. What Anne Brontë, Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon emphasize and “sensationalize” is the subjugated marriage relationship, violently portraying men forcing their wives into submission. Brontë’s Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Collin’s The Woman in White, and Braddon’s …
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Medicine and medical authority in three nineteenth-century novels.
… the nineteenth century—Bram Stoker's Dracula, Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone, and Catharine Maria Sedgwick's Hope Leslie—join then-contemporary conversations about medical reform. The novels explore the ethical ambiguities inherent in medical practice in the nineteenth century and question the …
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Being Talked About: Gossip and the Nineteenth-Century Novel
… novels, from Jane Austen and Caroline Lamb to Wilkie Collins and Henry James, this dissertation contends that while the emergence of the novel is grounded in the empirical fixations of modernity, gossip exists as a counter-epistemology, alongside the pressures of realism and scientific …
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The Ungovernable Governess:The Figure of the Governess in the Victorian Sensation Novel of the 1860s.
… Mary Elizabeth Braddon’s Lady Audley’s Secret, Wilkie Collins Armadale, Louisa May Alcott’s ‘Behind a Mask,’ and Ellen Wood’s East Lynne.1 The effects of the moral and social climate of the nineteenth century and the influence the historical governess had on these works will be examined. The …
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Prayers from the wreck : shipwreck narratives and imagined spiritual communities in nineteenth-century Britain.
… William Wordsworth, Charles Dickens, and Wilkie Collins, and Gerard Manley Hopkins all used shipwrecks to imagine competing print-based spiritual communities. My work reveals that historical shipwrecks were not always experienced as secularizing crises, but for adherents of many religious …
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Fiction and the Reaction to Photography: Literalism, the Law and the Conditions and the Control of Reading from the Invention of Photography to the 1920s
… of fictional work, including authors such as Wilkie Collins, Henry James, Charles Dickens, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Louis Stevenson. The study aims to illuminate how vision and reading are tied together and how visual codes are involved in how reading is experienced, conceptualised …
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Sleep and Sleeplessness in the Victorian Novel, Jane Eyre to Dracula
… to the present, I argue that Charlotte Brontë, Wilkie Collins, and Bram Stoker use sleep and wakefulness as vehicles to navigate gendered fluctuations of power and loss. <em>Jane Eyre, The Woman in White</em>, and <em>Dracula</em> each present sleep as a gendered space in which power is …
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The black, British Atlantic: Blackness in Victorian literature
… Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Mary Seacole, and Wilkie Collins rejected popular notions of blackness as a racial marker of African slavery with its implied negative qualities. Instead, their works convey a different idea about blackness as a pliable marker of cultural agency that not only …
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Visible Histories: Print Culture and the Reproducible Past in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
… apparitions in novels by Walter Scott, Wilkie Collins, George Eliot, and Oscar Wilde to contemporaneous print media, including illustration, print series, and photography. Against the backdrop of modernizing shifts in popular visual culture, these novelists depict the past as a realm of …
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