Theme and Subject in the Work of Wilkie Collins

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General

• Wilkie Collins and "The Woman Question"
• Wives and Fathers: Fatherhood and Divorce Laws in the Victorian Novel
• Love and Law in Wilkie Collins's Fictional Families
• "The Law of Abduction": Marriage and Divorce in Victorian Sensation and Mission Novels
• The Law of the Father: Victorian Sentimentality and the New Fatherhood
• The Victorian Custody Novel: Deceived and Deserted Daughters in The Evil Genius
• “Poor Lost Papa”: Old and New Fathers in Mid- and Late-Victorian Fiction
• Men in Tears: Moral, Physical, and Emotional Exhaustion in the Collins' Sensation Novels

The Moonstone

• The Moonstone as Critique of British Imperialism
• Detection and Disruption inside and outside the 'quiet English home' in The Moonstone
• Detection and Surveillance of the Colonial 'Other' in The Moonstone
• Dispersal of 'detective business' in Collins's Surveillance Society
• Imagined Geographies: Representations of the Orient in Three Nineteenth-Century Novels
• Collins's representation of the 'cursed Indian jewel': Orientalism in the sensation novel
• Rent Hearths and Fragmented Selves: Disordered Spaces in The Moonstone

The Woman in White

• “Sensation for which I find no name”: Nerves and Narration in The Woman in White
• Cosmopolitan Suspicions in The Woman in White
• Translucent & Concrete: Sisterhood & Gender in The Woman in White

Armadale

• Authenticism and Post-Authenticism: Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Michael Cox's The Meaning of Night: A Confession
• The Role of the "Fallen Woman" in Three Victorian Novels: George Eliot's Adam Bede, Wilkie Collins's Armadale and Elizabeth Gaskell's Mary Barton

Other Works

• The “secret of the bedstead”: Unraveling the domestic machinery in Wilkie Collins’s “A Terribly Strange Bed” (1852)

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