Authors in Context by Lyn Pykett
Wilkie Collins is mainly remembered for his best-selling sensation novel The Woman in White and his detective mystery The Moonstone , both published in the 1860s. However, in a literary career spanning nearly forty years he wrote over twenty novels, several plays, and numerous short stories in which his preoccupations with Victorian society are revealed. Irregular liaisons, the chaotic state of the marriage laws, social and psychological identity, and the interconnections between respectable society and the world of crime are recurring themes in Collins's fiction. Lyn Pykett looks at Collins's long and varied career in relation to the changing circumstances of his own life, a changing literary marketplace, and the changing worlds of nineteenth-century Britain, as well as his enduring legacy for modern writers and interpreters. The book includes a chronology of Collins's life and times, suggestions for further reading, websites, illustrations, and a comprehensive index.-
The Castle of Otranto
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The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Anna Karenina
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On Liberty and Other Essays
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The Flowers of Evil
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Wuthering Heights
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
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Evelina
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The Nicomachean Ethics
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Germinal
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The Monk
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Candide and Other Stories
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Walden
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"The Turn of the Screw and Other Stories
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The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals
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Republic
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A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful
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Persuasion
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The Italian
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The Ladies' Paradise
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The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
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Villette
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Adam Bede
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A Sicilian Romance
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Jane Eyre
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The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, and Weir of Hermiston
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Theogony and Works and Days
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Pamela
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The Odyssey
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The Library of Greek Mythology
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On the Genealogy of Morals
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Roman Lives
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Le Le Morte d'Arthur
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Northanger Abbey
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In a Glass Darkly
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"The Yellow Wall-Paper and Other Stories
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Ulysses
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Gulliver's Travels
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Myths from Mesopotamia
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The Vampyre and Other Tales of the Macabre
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The Prince
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King Solomon's Mines
Lyn Pykett served as the Pro Vice-Chancellor of Aberystwyth University for seven years, retiring in 2010. She has written about Emily Bront and Charles Dickens, as well as the sensation book and Wilkie Collins.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780192840349 |
| ISBN 10 | 0192840347 |
| Title | Authors in Context |
| Author | Lyn Pykett |
| Series | Oxford World's Classics Ser |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
| Year published | 2005-12-01 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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