by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
The aim of Laurie Garrison’s book, entitled Science, Sexuality and Sensation Novels: Pleasures of the Senses is to help fill a critical void in the study of sensation novels, in particular as regards the cultural context in which these novels were generated. Whereas...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Because much primary material concerning newspaper fiction in the Victorian period did not survive, because no archival survey is ever complete, and because definitions of genre are not universal, Graham Law has rigorously, precisely, and consistently qualified every...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
In the argument of this book, “twentieth-century paradigms of geopolitics” relate to nineteenth-century concepts of culture (3), and the title points to the idea that “discourses of geopolitics are constituted and sustained through essentially fictive forms” (7). The...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Wilkie Collins is one of the few ‘major Victorian creative personalities’ (to use the rather infelicitous phrasing of the editors of this collection), whose letters have hitherto remained uncollected and unpublished. Sadly, many of the letters which might...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Of the twenty-five novels which Collins produced, over an exceptionally long and creative literary career, only two can be said to have really made it into the canon (or at least, which amounts to much the same thing, into undergraduate reading lists.) These two are,...
