Wilkie Collins (New Casebooks) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312212690 ISBN 13: 9780312212698

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 1998

Synopsis

This selection of eleven essays charts the most important aspects of the developing debate about Wilkie Collins' fiction in the last twenty years. Employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches--including reader response theory, narratology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural materialism and a range of feminisms--these essays examine Collins' fiction from several perspectives: historical, psychological, structural, generic and political (including gender politics). They focus on an author preoccupied with the production of social and psychological identity, and with issues of class, gender and power. If there is a single issue which permeates this collection, it is the question of the subversiveness of Collins' fiction or, alternatively, its retreat from and/or containment of a radical social critique or subversive impulses. The pros and cons of this debate are explored further in Lyn Pykett's detailed and wide-ranging introduction.

About this title

About the Author:

Lyn Pykett is Lecturer in English at the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312212690
• ISBN 13: 9780312212698
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 280
• Editor: Pykett Lyn