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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Heller, Tamar, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: 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.