Content tagged: The Dead Alive

Wilkie Collins’s The Dead Alive: The Novel, the Case, and Wrongful Convictions

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 questioning the idea that the artistry of a literary work is necessarily compromised when that work serves an […]