| Wilkie Collins 1998 Edition Contributor(s): Pykett, Lyn (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333657705 ISBN-13: 9780333657706 Publisher: Red Globe Press OUR PRICE: $54.45 Product Type: Hardcover Published: May 1998 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| Series: New Casebooks |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.07 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles - Chronological Period - 1980's - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This selection of eleven essays charts the most important aspects of the developing debate about Collins's fiction in the last twenty years. Employing a range of theoretical and methodological approaches - including reader response theory, narratology, psychoanalysis, deconstruction, cultural materialism and a range of feminisms - these essays examine Collins's fiction from several perspectives: historical, psychological, structural, generic and political (including gender politics). They focus on an author preoccupied with the production of social and psychological identity, and with issues of class, gender and power. If there is a single issue which permeates this collection, it is the question of the subversiveness of Collins's fiction or, alternatively, its retreat from and/or containment of a radical social critique or subversive impulses. The pros and cons of this debate are explored further in Lyn Pykett's detailed and wide-ranging introduction. |