by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
Strangeness and monstrosity are two of the chief attractions for present-day readers of the stories and novels of Victorian Gothic authors, from Wilkie Collins to Vernon Lee. Ardel Haefele-Thomas showcases these attractions in her intriguing study of queerness in...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
In February 1841, when the doll-like and innocent Nell diedat the end ofThe Old Curiosity Shop, the Victorians were in a state of shock, some of Dickens’s readers even going into mourning. So were they when smallpox took away Jo in Bleak House in 1853. These examples...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
Saverio Tomaiuolo’s approach in this volume is to propose something like a ‘great tradition’ of Victorian novels which remain incomplete on account of the death of the author. The works in question are: Charlotte Brontë’s “Emma”, Thackeray’s Denis Duval, Gaskell’s...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Reviews
As the blurb to this new volume notes, it is almost fifteen years since Mary Elizabeth Braddon has been the focus of a collection of essays. In recent years sensation fiction has enjoyed something of a resurgence, including the publication of Pamela Gilbert’s edited...
by wilkieco | May 11, 2014 | Articles
Wilkie Collins’s Work: Antonina; or The Fall of Rome. A Romance of the Fifth Century. 3 vols. London: Richard Bentley, 1850. Armadale. Ed. John Sutherland. London: Penguin Books, 1995. Basil: A Story of Modern Life. Ed. Dorothy Goldman. Oxford: Oxford University...
