Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781443805100)

This eclectic collection brings together a range of critical voices, from varying disciplinary backgrounds, to comment on the life and works of Wilkie Collins. A close friend of Dickens, Collins engaged with some of the nineteenth century's most influential ideas and cultural developments. As this collection makes clear, he formed interesting connections with key figures in literature, art, theatre, medicine, and the law. As a result, his works often engaged with the period's most influential ideas and cultural developments. Best remembered for spearheading the Sensation genre with The Woman in White and detective fiction with The Moonstone, Collins's career actually encompassed a large amount of material that has remained relatively neglected until recently. Wilkie Collins: Interdisciplinary Essays offers readings of previously unstudied sources while offering new perspectives on the author's most canonical works.

Author: Andrew Mangham
ISBN-10: 1443805106
ISBN-13: 9781443805100
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Language: English
Published: 05/01/2009
Pages: 295
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.60w x 0.70d