Wilkie Collins

Lyn Pykett

Wilkie Collins

Department of English and Creative Writing

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Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spanning nearly forty years he wrote over twenty novels, several plays, and numerous short stories in which his preoccupations with Victorian society are revealed. Irregular liaisons, the chaotic state of the marriage laws, social and psychological identity, and the interconnections between respectable society and the world of crime are recurring themes in Collins's fiction. Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life, a changing literary marketplace, and the changing worlds of nineteenth-century Britain, as well as his enduring legacy for modern writers and interpreters.

The book includes a chronology of Collins's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.

Original language	English
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Number of pages	272
Edition	2
ISBN (Print)	9780199556113
Publication status	Published - 29 Jan 2009

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Name	Oxford World's Classics
Publisher	Oxford University Press

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