The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins (Cambridge Companions to Literature) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521549663 ISBN 13: 9780521549660

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century. He is best known for The Woman in White, which inaugurated the sensation novel in the 1860s, and The Moonstone, one of the first detective novels; but he wrote over 20 novels, plays and short stories during a career that spanned four decades. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing. In a wide range of essays by leading scholars, it traces the development of his career, his position as a writer and his complex relation to contemporary cultural movements and debates. Collins's exploration of the tensions which lay beneath Victorian society is analysed through a variety of critical approaches. A chronology and guide to further reading are provided, making this book an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

About this title

Book Description:

Wilkie Collins was one of the most popular writers of the nineteenth century, best known for The Woman in White and The Moonstone. This Companion offers a fascinating overview of Collins's writing, and will be an indispensable guide for all those interested in Wilkie Collins and his work.

About the Author:

Jenny Bourne Taylor is Reader in English at the University of Sussex.

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0521549663
• ISBN 13: 9780521549660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 232
• Editor: Taylor Jenny Bourne