Wilkie Collins A Literary Life [Hardcover]

Wilkie Collins: A Literary Life draws on recently available business and personal correspondence to establish a fresh portrait of one of Victorian Britain's busiest authors. The book takes in Collins's notoriously complicated private life as well as his work as a professional author in the changing world of Victorian publishing.List of Abbreviations Chronology of Collins's Life and Writings Collins's Education and Reading Collins's Circles Collins and the Earlier Victorian Literary Marketplace Collins as Journalist Collins and London Collins and Women Collins and the Theatre Collins as Missionary Collins Overseas Collins and the Later Victorian Literary Marketplace Last Things Notes Index

Combining original scholarship on Collins's negotiation of the Victorian literary marketplace with lively readings of his fiction that also give a clear sense of recent trends both in Collins criticism and work on nineteenth-century popular fiction, the book serves equally well as an introduction to or an update on Collins and his literary and cultural contexts. - Lyn Pykett, Aberystwyth University

GRAHAM LAW is?Professor in Media Studies at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan. He is the author of Serializing Fiction in the Victorian Press (2000) and editor of the Wilkie Collins Society Journal.

ANDREW MAUNDER?is Lecturer in English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He is the author of Bram Stoker (2006) and the editor of the series Varieties of Women's Sensation Fiction (2005).