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Article: Representations of illegitimacy in Wilkie Collins's early novels.
- Article from:
- Philological Quarterly
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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Illegitimacy was a prominent political, social, and literary issue throughout the nineteenth century, and is a theme that the sensation novelist Wilkie Collins repeatedly returns to in his fiction. Best remembered for his 1860 novel, The Woman in White, which heralded the beginning of the reading public's appetite for sensation literature, and his 1868 novel, The Moonstone, a defining text in the genre of detective fiction, Collins published twenty five novels as well as numerous short stories and plays in a career spanning over forty years. Collins's writing throughout his career served as a platform for his often unconventional views on marriage and the position of women ...
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