Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life (Literary Lives) ISBN-13: 9781349525317

ISBN-13: 9781349525317

Binding: Paperback

Author: Law, G.

Release Date: 01-01-2008

Languages: English

Edition: 1st ed. 2008

Number Of Pages: 231

Package Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches

Details: About the Author 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 Womens Sensation Fiction (2005). Product Description Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britains busiest authors. The book takes in Collinss notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing. Review “Combining original scholarship on Collinss negotiation of the Victorian literary marketplace with lively readings of his fiction that also give a clear sense of recent trends both in Collins criticism and work on nineteenth-century popular fiction, the book serves equally well as an introduction to or an update on Collins and his literary and cultural contexts.” – Lyn Pykett, Aberystwyth University