Wilkie Collins /
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| Author / Creator: | Pykett, Lyn. |
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| Imprint: | New York : Oxford University Press, 2005. |
| Description: | xvii, 254 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Oxford world's classics Authors in context Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press) Oxford world's classics (Oxford University Press). Authors in context. |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5747852 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgements
- General Editors' Preface
- Introduction
- 1.. What is 'Sensational' about the 'Sensation Novel'?
- 2.. The Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in White
- 3.. The Sensationalism of The Woman in White
- 4.. Reading Detection in The Woman in White
- 5.. Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White
- 6.. Rewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's No Name
- 7.. Armadale: The Sensitive Subject as Palimpsest
- 8.. Dreams, Transformations and Literature: The Implications of Detective Fiction
- 9.. From roman policier to roman-police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone
- 10.. Family Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone
- 11.. Blank Spaces: Ideological Tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone
- Further Reading
- Notes on Contributors
- Index