Reality's dark light
Subtitle: the sensational Wilkie Collins
By: edited by Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox.
Contributors: Bachman, Maria K., 1963-; Cox, Don Richard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Tennessee studies in literature ;; v. 41
Publisher: University of Tennessee Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Knoxville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 386
Subjects: Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 -- Criticism and interpretation; Detective and mystery stories, English -- History and criticism; Psychological fiction, English -- History and criticism; Sensationalism in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : The real Wilkie Collins / Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox; title: Fatal newness : basil, art, and the origins of sensation fiction / Tim Dolin and Lucy Dougan; title: Framed and hung : Collins and the economic beauty of the manly artist / Dennis Denisoff; title: "Bolder with her lover in the dark": Collins and disabled women's sexuality / Martha Stoddard Holmes; title: Chemical seductions : exoticism, toxicology, and the female poisoner in Armadale and The legacy of Cain / Piya Pal-Lapinski; title: Marian's moustache : bearded ladies, hermaphrodites, and intersexual collage in The woman in white / Richard Collins; title: The Crystal Palace, Imperialism, and the "Struggle for Existence": Victorian evolutionary discourse in Collins's The woman in white / Gabrielle Ceraldi; title: Fosco Lives! / A. D. Hutter; title: Outlandish English subjects in The moonstone / Timothy L. Carens; title: "Blue like me": Collins, poor Miss Finch, and the construction of racial identity / Lillian Nayder; title: Plain faces, weird cases : domesticating the law in Collins's The law and the lady and The trial of Madeleine Smith / Karin Jacobson; title: Collins, race, and slavery / Audrey Fisch; title: Yesterday's sensations : modes of publication and narrative form in Collins's late novels / Graham Law; title: Afterword : masterpiece theatre and Ezra Jennings's Hair : some reflections on where we've been and where we're going in Collins Studies / Tamar Heller.