Wilkie Collins

The Complete Fiction

Stephen Knight

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2022
• ISBN:
  9781000633146
• Edition: 1
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: Modern British History
• Index: History

This book provides the first comprehensive overview of the complete works of Wilkie Collins's. Examining his vast array of novels and short stories, this volume includes analysis of the social, historical, and political commentary Collins offered within his works, illuminating Collins as more than a successful crime and sensation author, or the fortunate recipient of Dicken's grand patronage, but as a hard-thinking and lively-writing part of the rich mid-Victorian literary scene. Overall, Collins is seen as a master of narratives which deal with social and personal issues that were much debated in his fifty-year authorial period. Close attention is paid to the events, themes, and characterization in his fiction, revealing his analytic vigor and the literary power of that period and context. Delivering fresh insight into the variety and richness of Collins' themes and arguments, this volume provides a key source of information and analysis on all Collins' fiction.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• 1. Short Stories 1843–611
• 2. The Engagement with Novels – Ioláni to The Woman in White
• 3. The Confident Novelist
• 4. The Later Short Stories
• 5. The Final Novels: Crime, Social Politics, Romance, and Melodrama
• Appendix
• Bibliography
• Index