Reality's dark light : the sensational Wilkie Collins

Abstract

In the midst of a culture ingrained with strict social etiquette societal norms, Wilkie Collins composed novels that contained asocial, even anarchic, impulses. A contemporary of Dickens, Collins creates a world more Kafkaesque than Dickensian, a world populated by doppelgangers, secret selves, oddballs, grotesques. essays of Reality Dark Light: Sensational Wilkie Collins purposefully work to expand Collins legacy beyond The Woman in White The Moonstone; they move well past the simplistic view of Collins works as sensation novels, detective novels, or even popular fiction, all labels that carry with them pejorative connotations. This collection represents the range of Collins aesthetic project from various critical perspectives. New methodological theoretical approaches are applied both to him most popular to his lesser-known works, giving the reader a broader picture of this multifaceted undervalued writer The Editors: Maria K. Bachman in an assistant professor of English at Coastal Carolina University. Her articles have appeared in Victorian Newsletter, Psychology, Dickensian, Dickens Studies Annual. Don Richard Cox is a professor of English associate dean at the University of Tennessee. His books include Sexuality and Victorian Literature (Tennessee), Arthur Conan Doyle, Charles Dickens s Mystery of Edwin Drood: An Annotated Bibliography. He is the coeditor, with Maria Bachman, of an edition of Wilkie Collins final novel, Blind Love

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