by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Articles
Following his death in 1889 until the third quarter of the last century, Wilkie Collins’ critical fortunes were largely at a low ebb. Today, Collins is in vogue, and interest in his work is undergoing its most fertile period ever. He is acknowledged as the pioneer of...
by wilkieco | May 10, 2014 | Articles
Michael Cox’s thriller, The Meaning of Night: A Confession (2006), starts with the narrator’s matter-of-fact report that he murdered a red-haired man before dining on oysters. Inspired by the sensation novels of the nineteenth century, particularly those...
by wilkieco | May 10, 2014 | Articles
Cosmetics and poisons share a complex relationship in the work of Wilkie Collins and, as I will argue, their commonalities make visible his challenge to the ideological matrices which governed the conceptualisation of the body at this time. Collins clearly uses...
by wilkieco | May 10, 2014 | Articles
Of Wilkie Collins’s oeuvre, The New Magdalen receives little scholarly attention and is often dismissed as a failed experiment of his later sensation fiction. However, the narrative, produced in serial, volume, and dramatic form, resonates as an artifact of Victorian...
by wilkieco | May 10, 2014 | Articles
Monomania. This word has of late become a jest in the mouth of the public. But the public is unfortunately far from being well-informed on some things, and may perhaps laugh when it ought to be grave. (“Monomania” 177) The term monomania, about which Chambers...
