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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.

Collins, Wilkie, --- Critique et interprétation --- Criticism and interpretation --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- English --- English Literature --- Languages & Literatures --- Collins, William Wilkie --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Collins, Wilkie --- Critique et interprétation.

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In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relationship. She challenges the widely accepted image of Dickens as a mentor of younger writers such as Collins, points to the ways in which Dickens controlled and profited from his literary "satellites," and charts Collins's development as an increasingly significant and independent author. The pair's collaborations for Household Words and All the Year Round explicitly addressed Victorian labor disputes and political unrest, and Nayder reads the stories in terms of the social and imperial conflicts that both provided their themes and enabled Dickens and Collins to mediate their own personal and professional differences. Nayder's discussion of the collaboration and its principals is greatly enriched by archival research into unpublished and unfamiliar material, including the manuscripts of The Frozen Deep.

Literature publishing --- English fiction --- Authorship --- Serial publication of books --- Booksellers and bookselling --- Publishers and publishing --- History --- History and criticism. --- Collaboration --- Dickens, Charles, --- Collins, Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- Dickens, Charles --- Dikensi, Čʻarlz, --- Dickens, Karol, --- Dikens, Charlz, --- Ti-keng-ssu, --- Digengsi, --- Dikkens, Charlz, --- Dikensas, Čarlzas, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārls, --- Ṭikkan̲cu, Cārlacu, --- Ṭikkan̲s, Cārlas, --- Диккенс, Чарлз, --- דיקינס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקנס, ַ צ׳רלז --- דיקנס, טשרלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלז, --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס --- דיקנס, צ׳רלס, --- דיקענס, טש --- דיקענס, טשארלז --- דיקענס, טשארלז, --- דיקענס, טש., --- דיקקענס, טשארלז --- טשרלס, דיקנס --- チャールズ.ディケンズ, --- 狄更斯查尔斯, --- Boz, --- Sparks, Timothy, --- Collaboration. --- Friends and associates. --- Criticism and interpretation.

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Eavesdropping in the Novel from Austen to Proust investigates human curiosity and its representation in eavesdropping scenes in nineteenth-century English and French novels. Ann Gaylin argues that eavesdropping dramatizes a primal human urge to know and offers a paradigm of narrative transmission and reception of information among characters, narrators and readers. Gaylin sheds light on the social and psychological effects of the nineteenth-century rise of information technology and accelerated flow of information, as manifested in the anxieties about - and delight in - displays of private life and its secrets. Analysing eavesdropping in Austen, Balzac, Collins, Dickens and Proust, Gaylin demonstrates the flexibility of the scene to produce narrative complication or resolution; to foreground questions of gender and narrative agency; to place the debates of privacy and publicity within the literal and metaphoric spaces of the nineteenth-century novel. This 2003 study will be of interest to scholars of nineteenth-century English and European literature.

English fiction --- Eavesdropping in literature. --- Comparative literature --- French fiction --- History and criticism. --- English and French. --- French and English. --- Austen, Jane, --- Collins, Wilkie, --- Balzac, Honoré de, --- Proust, Marcel, --- de Balzac, Honoré --- de Balzac, H. --- Balzac, Honoré de --- Collins, William Wilkie, --- Collins, William Wilkie --- Kollinz, Uilki, --- Collins, W., --- Collins, W. Wilkie, --- Коллинз, Уилки, --- קולינס, וילקי, --- 柯林斯威尔基, --- Ao-ssu-ting, --- Ao-ssu-ting, Chien, --- Aosiding, --- Aosiding, Jian, --- Āsṭin̲, Jēn̲, --- Austenová, Jane, --- Osten, Dzheĭn, --- Ostin, Dzhein, --- Lady, --- Author of Sense and Sensibility, --- Остен, Джейн, --- Остен, Джейм, --- אוסטן, ג׳יין --- אוסטן, ג׳יין, --- أوستن، جين، --- Views on eavesdropping. --- Prust, Marselʹ, --- Proust, Valentin Louis Georges Eugène Marcel, --- Pʻŭrusŭtʻŭ, Marŭsel, --- Pʻu-lu-ssu-tʻe, --- Пруст, Марсель, --- פרוסט, מארסל --- פרוסט, מרסל --- ,פרוסט, מרסל --- بروست، مارسيل،, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Ba'erzhake, --- Balzac, H. de --- Balzac, Honorato, --- Balzak, --- Balʹzak, Onore, --- Balzaḳ, Onoreh deh, --- Balzāk, Ūnūrīh dī, --- Banzăc, Hônôrê đơ, --- Baruzakku, --- de Balzac, Honorato, --- Jeune célibataire, --- Pa-erh-cha-kʻo, --- Бальзак, Оноре де, --- באלזאק, אנארע דע, --- באלזאק, אונורה דה, --- באלזאק, האָנאָרע דע, --- בלזק, אונורה דה, --- בלזק, הונורה דה-, --- דע־באלזאק, האָנאָרע, --- بالزاك، انوره دو --- バルザック, --- 巴爾札克, --- 巴爾扎克, --- R'Hoone, --- Saint-Aubin, Horace de, --- Cloteaux, Aurore --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Proust, Marcel