Wilkie Collins: Scholarship and Criticism: Past, Present, and Future – Bibliography

Wilkie Collins’s Work:

Antonina; or The Fall of Rome. A Romance of the Fifth Century. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1850.

Armadale. Ed. John Sutherland. London: Penguin Books, 1995.

Basil: A Story of Modern Life. Ed. Dorothy Goldman. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990.

The Black Robe. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus,1881.

Blind Love. Ed. Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 2004.

The Evil Genius. Ed. Graham Law. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1994.

The Fallen Leaves. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1879.

Heart and Science. Ed. Steve Farmer. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1996.

Ioláni; or Tahiti As It Was: A Romance. Ed. Ira Nadel. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Jezebel’s Daughter.3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus, 1880.

“John Jago’s Ghost; Or, The Dead Alive, An American Story”: reprinted as The Dead Alive. Boston, 1874 (1873).

The Law and the Lady. Ed. David Skilton. London: Penguin Classics, 1998.

The Legacy of Cain. 3 vols. London: Chatto & Windus,1888.

The Lighthouse: A Drama in Two Acts. Ed. Andrew Gasson and Caroline Radcliffe. London: Francis Boutle, 2013.

Man and Wife. Ed. Norman Page. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995.

Man and Wife. Ed. Jenny Bourne Taylor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992.

Memoir of the Life of William Collins Esq. RA. 2 vols. London: Longman, 1848.

Miss or Mrs? –  The Haunted Hotel – The Guilty River. Ed. Norman Page and Toru Sasaki. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999.

The Moonstone. Ed Steve Farmer. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview, 1999; Ed John Sutherland. Oxford: Oxford University Press: World’s Classics, 1996.

“Mrs. Zant and the Ghost” in Wilkie Collins: The Complete Shorter Fiction. Ed. Julian Thompson. New York: Carroll & Graf, 1995. 678-700.

The New Magdalen. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1873.

No Name. Ed. Mark Ford. London: Penguin, 1994.

Poor Miss Finch. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1872.

The Storm at the Lighthouse, with an Introduction, Textual Notes, and Appendix.” Robert C. Hanna. Dickens Studies Annual 44 (2013): 289-364.

Daniel Hack. “Volpurno – Or the Student: A Forgotten tale of Madness by Wilkie Collins.” TLS (2 January 2009): 14-15.

The Woman in White. Ed. Matthew Sweet. London: Penguin Books, 1999.

Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive. The Novel, The Case, and Wrongful Convictions. Ed. Rob Warden. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2005.

Bibliography, Biography, Accounts of Criticism, Criticism, Reference Works, etc

“Addenda-Corrigenda” to the Wilkie Collins Society Journal, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

From 2005 to 2011, they were published as a separate pamphlet by the Wilkie Collins Society. Paul Lewis’s website www.wilkiecollins.com

Ackroyd, Peter. Wilkie Collins. London: Chatto & Windus, 2012.

Allen, Janice M. “Afterword.” Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays. Ed. Andrew Mangham. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007. 250-261.

Ashley, Robert. Wilkie Collins. New York: Roy, 1952.

Bachman, Maria K. and Don R. Cox, ed. Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins. Knoxville, Tenn.: The University of Tennessee Press, 2003.

Baker, William and William M. Clarke, ed. The Letters of Wilkie Collins. 2 vols. Basingstoke, Hants: Macmillan, 1999.

Baker, William, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis, ed. The Public Face of Wilkie Collins, 4 vols. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2005.

Baker, William. A Wilkie Collins Chronology. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Baker, William. Wilkie Collins’s Library: A Reconstruction. Westport, Conn.:         Greenwood, 2002.

Baker, William and Andrew Gasson, ed. Wilkie Collins: Lives of Victorian Literary Figures, volume 2. London:  Pickering and Chatto, 2007.

Beetz, Kirk H.. Wilkie Collins: An Annotated Bibliography 1889 – 1976. Metuchen, N.J and London: Scarecrow Press, 1978.

__________. “Wilkie Collins Studies, 1972-1983.” Dickens Studies Annual 13 (1984): 333-55.

Brannan, R. L., ed. “The Frozen Deep: Under the Management of Mr. Charles Dickens.” Cornell University. Ph.D, 1965.

Brashear, Barbara Ann. “Wilkie Collins: From Novel to Play.” Case Western Reserve University, Ph.D., 1972.

Beller, Anne-Marie. “‘Too Absurdly Repulsive’: Generic Indeterminacy and the Failure of The Fallen Leaves,” in Andrew Mangham, ed. Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 10-21.

Bennett, M. L.. Caxton Head Catalogue 198: Books from the Library of the Late Wilkie Collins. London (February 1890).

Bibliography, Accounts of Criticism, Criticism, Reference Works

Taylor, Jenny Bourne, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.

Brusberg-Kiermeier, Stefani. “Detecting Buried Secrets: Recent Film Versions of The Woman in White and The Moonstone,” in Andrew Mangham, ed. Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 237-249.

Chaudhuri, Brahma, ed. A Comprehensive Bibliography of Victorian Studies, 1970-1984. Edmonton, Alberta: LITIR Database, 1984-1985. Web. www.victoriandatabase.

__________, ed. A Cumulative Bibliography of Victorian Studies. Edmonton, Alta.: LITIR Database, c. 1982-. Web. www.victoriandatabase

__________, ed. A Cumulated Index to Reviews of Books on Victorian Studies, 1975-1989. Edmonton, Alta.: LITIR Database, c. 1990. Web. www.victoriandatabase

Clarke, William M.. The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins. London: Allison & Busby, 1988; Stroud, Glos., Alan Sutton, revised edition, 1996.

“Collins, William Wilkie (1824-1889).” Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford: British Academy and Oxford University Press, 2004. Web. http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/printable/5961.

Gasson, Andrew. Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998.

Grinstein, Alexander. Wilkie Collins: Man of Mystery and Imagination. Madison, Conn., International University Presses, 2003.

Hanes, Susan R.. Wilkie Collins’s American Tour 1873-4. London: Pickering and Chatto, 2008.

Hidden Treasures of the Romanovs: Saving the Royal Jewels. Edinburgh: National Museums Scotland, 2009

Klimaszewski, Melissa. Wilkie Collins [Brief Lives]. London: Hesperus Press, 2011.

Law, Graham. “Collins on International Copyright: From ‘A National Wrong’ (1870) to ‘Considerations’” (1880), in Andrew Mangham, ed. Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 178-194.

Law, Graham and Andrew Maunder. Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life. Basingstoke, Hants: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Lewis, Paul. “Review of Andrew Lycett’s Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation”. The Wilkie Collins Society Newsletter (Winter 2013):1-2.

Lycett, Andrew. Wilkie Collins: A Life of Sensation. London: Hutchinson, 2013.

Malik, Rachel. “The Afterlife of Wilkie Collins.” Jenny Bourne Taylor, ed. The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006: 181-93.

Mangham, Andrew, ed. Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007.

Mangham, Andrew. “Political and Psychological Conflict in Antonina,” in Andrew Mangham, ed. Wilkie Collins Interdisciplinary Essays. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2007: 90-106.

Meyler, Bernadette A. “Transparency and Textuality: Wilkie Collins Law Books.” Cornell Law School Legal Studies Research Paper Series, No.07-001. Cornell Law School, 2007.

Miller, Elizabeth V.. Wilkie Collins and Charles Reade: First Editions Described with Notes by M L Parrish with the Assistance of Elizabeth V Miller. First published in 1940 and reprinted by Burt Franklin in 1968.

Nayder, Lillian. “Wilkie Collins Studies: 1983-1999.” Dickens Studies Annual 28 (1998): 257-329.

__________. Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, & Victorian Authorship. (2002).

Page, Norman, ed. Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1974.

Palliser, Charles. The Quincaux. Harmondsworth, Middl: Penguin Books, 1990.

Peters, Catherine. The King of Inventors: A Life of Wilkie Collins. London: Secker & Warburg, 1991.

Puttick & Simpson. Library of the Late Wilkie Collins Esq. London (20 January 1890).

Pykett, Lyn. Wilkie Collins: Authors in Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005.

Robinson, Kenneth. Wilkie Collins: A Biography. John Lane (The Bodley Head), 1951.

Sayers, Dorothy L. Wilkie Collins. A Critical and Bibliographical Study. Ed E. R. Gregory. Toledo, Ohio: Friends of the University of Toledo Libraries, 1977.

Seccombe, Thomas. “Collins, William Wilkie (1824-1889).” Supplement to the Dictionary of National Biography. London: Oxford University Press, 1917: 471-4.

Sehlbach, Hans. Untersuchungen über der Romankunst von Wilkie Collins. Jena, 1931.

Smith, Nelson and R.C. Terry, eds. Wilkie Collins to the Forefront: Some Reassessments New York: AMS Press, 1995.

Wolzogen, Ernst von. Wilkie Collins: Ein  Biographisch-Kritischer Versuch. Leipzig, 1885.


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