Wilkie Collins

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A Literary Life, Literary Lives

ISBN: 1403948968
ISBN 13: 9781403948960
Autor: Law, G/Maunder, A
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xvii, 214 S.
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.07.2008
Auflage: 1/2008
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

Fascinating case history of the changing economic and cultural conditions surrounding the production and reception of popular fiction in the nineteenth century – ties into current academic interest in print culture 2 Useful addition to current critical work on Collins for students, scholars of Victorian culture and general readers 3 Recent surge of interest in Collins and sensation fiction 4 Discusses key works ( The Woman in White, The Moonstone ) as well as lesser-known texts 5 The first study to draw on Collins’s recently published collected letters

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Beschreibung

Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing.

Autorenporträt

GRAHAM LAW is Professor in Media Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press (2000) and editor of the Wilkie Collins Society Journal. ANDREW MAUNDER is Lecturer in English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Bram Stoker (2006) and the editor of the series Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction (2005).

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