Unequal Partners : : Charles Dickens, Wilkie Collins, and Victorian Authorship / / Lillian Nayder.

In the first book centering on the collaborative relationship between Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins, Lillian Nayder places their coauthored works in the context of the Victorian publishing industry and shows how their fiction and drama represent and reconfigure their sometimes strained relation...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]
©2010
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (240 p.) :; 4 halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • The Collaborations of Dickens and Collins
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business
  • 2. Collins Joins Dickens's Management Team: "The Wreck of the Golden Mary"
  • 3. The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of The Frozen Deep
  • 4. Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 1857
  • 5. "No Thoroughfare": The Problem of Illegitimacy
  • 6. Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  • Conclusion: "This Unclean Spirit of Imitation": Dickens and the "Problem" of Collins's Influence
  • Works Cited
  • Index