Masochistic pleasures of detection in the sensation novels of Wilkie Collins
This study analyzes and accounts for the mixed emotional responses to three Wilkie Collins novels: The Dead Secret (1857), The Woman in White (1860), and The Law and the Lady (1875). Contemporary reviews of these novels, in addition to Collins’s comments on the reception of his works, suggest that...
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University of British Columbia
2009
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/2429/7233 |