Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the British Victorian novelist Wilkie Collins, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the Modern Language Association Guidelines for Authors of Web Pages

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Literary Criticism

Ablow, Rachel. "Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White." Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2003

Baker, William, Andrew Gasson, Graham Law and Paul Lewis Publisher's blurb for The Public Face of Wilkie Collins: the Collected Letters, Pickering and Chatto

Clarke, William M. A review of Clarke's The Secret Life of Wilkie Collins. (Allison and Busby, 1988). Reviewed in the Guardian by Charles Rollings

Jones, Anna. "A victim in search of a torturer: Reading masochism in Wilkie Collins's No Name." Jones examines No Name as a variation on the sensation novel. Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Spring 2000

Nayder, Lillian. "No Love Story." A review of Nayder's Unequal Partners: Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship (Cornell Univ. Press, 2002). Reviewed by Coleman, Dawn in Novel: A Forum on Fiction, Fall 2002

Peters, Catherine. "Heroine, and after that the laudanum." A review of Peters' The King Of Inventors: A Life Of Wilkie Collins (Secker and Warburg, 1991). Reviewed in the Guardian by Sylvia Clayton

Introduction

The Victorian Web has excellent essays on Wilkie Collins's writing techniques, themes, biography, and the Victorian background.

A summary of Wilkie Collins's life, U.K. Guardian Newspapers.

A reading and discussion guide to The Moonstone, Kingwood College Library, Kingwood, TX

Crime Fiction Web Sites

Horsley, Lee and Katharine. "Crime Culture," an academic web site on crime fiction, crime film, and true crime. Includes original articles, syllabi, recommended secondary bibliography for teaching crime fiction, and more

Marling, William. "Hard-boiled detective fiction," contains essays by Dr. Marling on early writers of hard-boiled fiction, classic writers, and later writers in this style, an extensive secondary bibliography, and more

Black Mask Magazine "the classic hard-boiled pulp crime mag." Slickly produced and informative, includes pages on the history of the genre and some early tales from Black Mask

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