Wilkie Collins and <i>the Woman in White</i>

Hyder, Clyde K.

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Hale¹

2012

The Encyclopedia of the Gothic

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The term “Gothic” is a peculiarly Anglocentric one which has no direct equivalent in French or, indeed, most other European languages. This was true even in the heyday of the British Gothic novel in the late eighteenth century and first two decades of the nineteenth century when the genre, which gave rise to a considerable number of French translations, adaptations, and imitations, seems to have lacked a precise appellation (though it is not inconceivable that the term roman noir was employed by one or two literary specialists). The Marquis de Sade, who published an important survey of the development of the novel in 1800, simply describes such works as English novels. Over the course of the next two decades, French readers would, no doubt, have increasingly viewed the same works as historical novels. Balzac, who published a couple of “Gothic” potboilers in his youth (notably, Le Centenaire; ou, les deux Beringheld [the Centenarian, or the two Beringhelds] issued under the pseudonym Horace de Saint‐Aubin in 1822), and whose later work is imbued with “Gothic” qualities, wisely avoids the issue, referring simply to works in the style of Ann Radcliffe throughout his vast opus.

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Literary Skies After 1800

Olson¹

2018

Further Adventures of the Celestial Sleuth

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Multiple Narratives & Relative Truths: a Study ofThe Ring and the Book, The Woman in White, andThe Moonstone

Lonoff¹

1982

Browning Inst. Stud.

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Across the span of a single decade, Robert Browning and Wilkie Collins published, respectively, a poem and two novels with similarly innovative structures. All three works are multiple narratives; that is, they are narrated by several of their characters who function both as actors and witnesses. All three were immediately popular, and all three continue to be regarded as major achievements of their audiors.The Woman in White, serialized inAll the Year Roundfrom 1859 to 1860, quickly became the talk of London and remained so preeminent among Collins's novels that in his will he requested as his epitaph, “author ofThe Woman in Whiteand other works of fiction.”The Ring and the Book, begun in 1864 and inspired by a source that Browning found in 1860, was issued in four volumes, two in 1868 and two in 1869. LikeThe Woman in White, it was widely discussed and admired, exalting Browning's reputation even among readers who had earlier been critical.The Moonstone, begun in 1867 and published serially inAll the Year Roundduring 1868, was not initially as popular as the other two, although its publisher reported that “crowds of anxious readers” waited for the latest serial installments; but today it is Collins's most celebrated novel, often (though inaccurately) cited as the first detective novel in English.

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Wilkie Collins and the Woman in White

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Multiple Narratives & Relative Truths: a Study ofThe Ring and the Book, The Woman in White, andThe Moonstone

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