by wilkieco | Jun 12, 2013 | Articles
The plot of Wilkie Collins’s Moonstone relies heavily on the device of the legacy, and legacies – great, small, and merely hypothetical – crop up with astonishing frequency over the course of the novel. ((Ilana Blumberg views what I term “legacies” rather differently,...
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,...