Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

Lonoff, Sue

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“…Nesse sentido, a leitura profissional de Dickens e, paralelamente a essa, a de seu editor assistente, William Henry Wills (1810-1880), de algum modo, orientaram o processo de escrita das obras de Collins, sobretudo, as ficcionais -tanto ao definirem as diretrizes e os acordos para a publicação nas colunas das revistas quanto ao lerem e comentarem os manuscritos enviados. Apreende-se, portanto, que Dickens desempenhou ao mesmo tempo o papel de editor e de conselheiro literário de Collins (LONOFF, 1980).…”

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Os leitores vitorianos de Wilkie Collins

Silva

2024

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Este artigo tem como objetivo esquadrinhar as relações do escritor britânico Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) com os seus leitores vitorianos. Ao traçar os perfis desses leitores, busca-se analisar não apenas as práticas de leitura vigentes na sociedade britânica oitocentista, mas também delinear as condições e as dinâmicas de produção, circulação e recepção dos romances vitorianos serializados em periódicos. Trata-se, portanto, de pensar a escrita ficcional para além das normativas internas da obra literária, ao não perder de vista e trazer para o plano investigativo a importância do papel desempenhado pela materialidade dos suportes de veiculação textual ao longo do processo de construção e de significação da narrativa. É a partir dessa triangulação entre escrita, diretrizes de publicação e experiências de leitura que história e literatura se interseccionam neste estudo.

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Os leitores vitorianos de Wilkie Collins

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A SPECULATIVE RESURRECTION: DEATH, MONEY, AND THE VAMPIRIC ECONOMY OF OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

Scoggin

2002

Victorian Literature and Culture

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Has a dead man any use for money? Is it possible for a dead man to have money? What world does a dead man belong to? ‘Tother world. What world does money belong to? This world. How can money be a corpse’s? Can a corpse own it, want it, spend it, claim it, miss it?— Gaffer Hexam, Our Mutual FriendWHILE FISHING CORPSES out of the fast-flowing Thames, itself a symbol of death,1 in order to probe their pockets, Gaffer Hexam makes sharp reference to a long-standing distinction regarding the limits of earthly possession. Some of Dickens’s readers would have been quite ready to connect Gaffer’s remarks to Bunyan’s story of Christian’s exodus from the commerce and bustle of the earthly city and his crossing of the river of death that flows before the gates of the celestial city. Others might have considered the riverman’s musings as somehow referring to St. Paul’s saying that “the end of those things [wealth] is death” (qtd. in Welsh 59).2 In the presentation of Gaffer’s ghastly career, however, Dickens points out a dislocation from these earlier views: the riverman desecrates the “muffled human form” he finds just as he truncates (if not turns inside-out) what was once the afterlife’s principal judgment of the use of riches in this lower world (44; bk. 1, ch. 1). According to the text, Gaffer, in sharply dividing spiritual transactions from material ones, and the soul from his or her former possessions, only further mires himself in the “slime and ooze” of the commercial river (43; bk. 1, ch. 1), enabling decay to encroach more aggressively on life.

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Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth

Kay

2019

Life Writing

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Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

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Os leitores vitorianos de Wilkie Collins

Os leitores vitorianos de Wilkie Collins

A SPECULATIVE RESURRECTION: DEATH, MONEY, AND THE VAMPIRIC ECONOMY OF OUR MUTUAL FRIEND

Fictionalisation in Biography: Creating the Dickens Myth

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