by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Developed from papers given at a Collins conference at the University of Sheffield in 2005, this wide-ranging collection contains sixteen essays divided into five sections: “Collins in Context,” “Collins and Art,” “Collins and Medicine,” “Collins and the Law,” and...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Alexander Grinstein’s book is avowedly a Freudian case-history rather than a biography. Convinced that Collins’s works are full of personal revelations of psychological problems repeated as themes in his writing, he places more weight on interpretation of the writing,...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
The Victorian library is a very interesting institution, and also a very interesting room. The nineteenth century saw the founding of numerous public libraries in England, and so far there have been few attempts to extend Roger Chartier’s extremely important work on...
by wilkieco | Jun 10, 2013 | Reviews
Writing in the Fortnightly Review on 1 November 1889, shortly after Collins’s death, A. C. Swinburne penned the now-famous couplet linking the social “mission[s]” of Collins’s late novels with the near-“perdition” of his artistic genius, expressing as well as...
by wilkieco | Jun 6, 2013 | Reviews
The cliché of the female musician in the Victorian drawing-room is epitomized by William Orchardson’s painting, Her Mother’s Voice, with its pensive father, pausing from his newspaper to listen as his daughter plays the piano and sings to her lover. The role of...
