by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Relatively little critical attention has been paid to Wilkie Collins’s “I Say No”. For example, Catherine Peters summarises it as “a mystery story, with no message beyond a practical warning that it is best to tell children the truth about...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In his assessment of the art of Wilkie Collins, Harry Quilter highlights the way in which the “facts of Nature” are combined with the “emotions of his story” (578). Quilter’s comments are astute: for one of Collins’s key concerns is...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
In Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White (serialized in All the Year Round 1859-60) Walter Hartright disappears from the English setting to serve as illustrator for an archeological expedition to Honduras. As part of the quest theme in the novel, this journey is...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
Much of Wilkie Collins’s Armadale is taken up by Ozias Midwinter’s internal debate about whether the dream in the novel has a natural or a supernatural origin, and by Lydia Gwilt’s plots to acquire Allan Armadale’s fortune. At first sight the...
by wilkieco | Jun 13, 2013 | Articles
By “belt-and-braces” serialization is meant the publication of a novel in instalments simultaneously in both a metropolitan periodical distributed nationwide and in a syndicate of provincial journals with complementary regional circulations. Since the...
