by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Seeing is believing: in broad terms, the complexities of this axiom form the overarching theme of Srdjan Smajić’s Ghost-Seers, Detectives, and Spiritualists: Theories of Vision in Victorian Literature and Science, a study that examines the correlations and disparities...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
The publication of Ioláni has been eagerly awaited by Collins scholars and enthusiasts since the re-emergence of the manuscript in New York in 1991, when it was sold by the bookseller Glen Horowitz to an anonymous buyer. That discovery alone, a lost first novel by one...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
The Pope has just canonised three nineteenth-century missionaries, but no-one had seriously expected to see St Charles Dickens or St Wilkie Collins, who are the main focus of this book. The combination of unconventional sexual arrangements in their lives and manifest...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Tamara Wagner’s book seeks to “reassess common misinterpretations of nostalgia as a cloying sentimentality or an emotionally distorted memory” (12), and to show that there is much more to be said on the subject. Appreciating the complexity and significance of...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Collins’s work, as he famously noted in the Preface to Armadale, “oversteps, in more than one direction, the narrow limits within which [critics] are disposed to restrict the development of modern fiction,” and this new collection of essays aims to move beyond the...
