William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

A selective list of online literary criticism for the English Victorian ear novelist Wilkie Collins, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars and articles published in peer-reviewed sources


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Introduction & Biography

Rosen, Jonathan. "Doubles: Wilkie Collins's shadow selves." New Yorker 25 July 2011.

"Wilkie Collins." A brief timeline for Wilkie Collins's life, Guardian.

Lonoff, Sue. "Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 35, 2 (Sept. 1980) pp 150-70 [free at jstor].

"The Wilkie Collins Society." Web site for the scholarly organization devoted to Wilkie Collins. Includes some articles from The Wilkie Collins Journal.


Literary Criticism The Woman in White

Hyder, Clyde K. "Wilkie Collins and The Woman in White." PMLA 54, 1 (March 1939) pp 297-303 [free at jstor].

Kendrick, Walter M. "The Sensationalism of The Woman in White." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 32, 1 (June 1977) pp 18-35 [free at jstor].

Sutherland, John. "Two Emergencies in the Writing of The Woman in White." The Yearbook of English Studies 7 (1977) pp 148-56 [free at jstor].

Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. "Reading Detection in The Woman in White." Texas Studies in Literature and Language 22, 4 (Winter 1980) pp 449-67 [preview only, jstor].

Meckier, Jerome. "Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White: Providence against the Evils of Propriety." Journal of British Studies 22, 1 (Autumn 1982) pp 104-26 [free at jstor].

Miller, D.A. "Cage Aux Folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White." Representations 35 (Spring 1986) pp 107-36 [free at jstor].

Cvetkovich, Ann. "Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 23, 1 (Autumn 1989) pp 24-43 [preview or purchase, jstor].

Perkins, Pamela; and Mary Donaghy. "A Man's Resolution: Narrative Strategies in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White." Studies in the Novel 22, 4 (Winter 1990) pp 392-402 [free at jstor].

Bernstein, Stephen. "Reading Blackwater Park: Gothicism, Narrative, and Ideology in The Woman in White." Studies in the Novel 225, 3 (fall 1993) pp 291-305 [free at jstor].

May, Leila Silvana. "Sensational Sisters: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White." Pacific Coast Philology 30, 1 (1995) pp 82-102 [free at jstor].

Ablow, Rachel. "Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The Woman in White." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 37, 1/2 (Fall 2003/Spring 2004) pp 158-80 [preview or purchase at jstor].

Liddle, Dallas. "Wilkie Collins, The Woman in White (1859-60)." Victorian Review 35, 1 (Spring 2009) pp 37-41 [jstor].

Huffels, Natalie. "Tracing Traumatic Memory in The Woman in White: Psychic Shock, Victorian Science, and the Narrative Strategy of the Shadow-Bildungsroman." Victorian Review 37, 1 (Spring 2011) pp 42-61 [preview, muse].

Cameron, S. Brooke. "The Resilient Marian Halcombe: On Feminine Feeling and Wilkie Collins's Debt to Amatory Fiction." Nineteenth-Century Gender Studies 10, 1 (Spring 2014) [free].


Literary Criticism The Moonstone

Milley, Henry James Wye. "The Eustace Diamonds and The Moonstone." Studies in Philology 36, 4 (Oct. 1939) pp 651-663 [free at jstor].

Ashley, Robert P. "Wilkie Collins and the Detective Story." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 6, 1 (June 1951) pp 47-60 [free at jstor].

Miller, D.A. "From Roman Policier to Roman-Police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone." NOVEL: A Forum on Fiction 13, 2 (Winter 1980) pp 153-70 [preview or purchase at jstor].

Marfin, Ross C. "The Art of Representation: Collins's The Moonstone and Dickens's Example." ELH 49, 3 (Autumn 1982) pp 653-72 [free at jstor].

Hennelly, Mark M., Jr. "Detecting Collins' Diamond: From Serpentstone to Moonstone." Nineteenth-Century Fiction 39, 1 (June 1984) pp 25-47 [free at jstor].

Roy, Ashish. "The Fabulous Imperialist Semiotic of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone." New Literary History 24, 3 (Summer 1993) pp 657-81 [free at jstor].

Levy, Eric. "Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone and the Problem of Pain in Life." Victorian Review 28, 1 (2002) pp 66-79 [jstor].


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