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Dead secrets : Wilkie Collins and the female gothic /
Readers have long been enthralled by the novels of Wilkie Collins, whose The Moonstone is considered the first modern detective novel. This book by Tamar Heller--the most comprehensive study of Collins' work ever written--places Collins within Victorian literary history, showing how his fiction...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[1992]
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Dead Secrets
- 1. Reigns of Terror: The Politics of the Female Gothic
- 2. Becoming an Author in 1848: History and the Gothic in the Early Works of Wilkie Collins
- 3. Basil: Femininity, Ressentiment, and the Male Artist
- 4. Writing after Dark: Collins and Victorian Literary Culture
- 5. The Woman in White: Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man
- 6. Blank Spaces: Ideological Tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone
- Epilogue: The Haunted Narrative.