Illegitimacy in the Mid-Victorian Novels of Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

The fiction of Dickens and Collins abounds with references to the illegitimate. In the mid-Victorian period there is an increase in illegitimate characters and circumstances which relates both to the topicality of the issue and to events in the authors individual and collaborative private lives. Il...

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Main Author: Hansen, Tessa Louise
Language:en
Published: University of Canterbury. English 2008
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10092/919