03059nam a2200325 a 4500 ebr10655229 CaPaEBR m u cr cn||||||||| 070703s2007 enka sb 101 0deng d 2007702096 1847181090 9781847181091 9781443802239 (e-book) CaPaEBR CaPaEBR (OCoLC)830838567 PR4497 .W535 2007eb Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays [electronic resource] / edited by Andrew Mangham. Newcastle, U.K. : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007. xi, 284 p. : ill. "This book is a result of the "Wilkie Collins Conference" held at the University of Sheffield in 2005"--P. [xii]. Includes bibliographical references and index. Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? : Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood -- Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Afterword /Janice M. Allan. Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries. Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889 Criticism and interpretation Congresses. Electronic books. local Mangham, Andrew, 1979- ebrary, Inc. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10655229 An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view 76923 76923