The Cambridge Companion to Wilkie Collins

摘要

Since 1995, studies of Wilkie Collins have erupted following a century or more of quiet. The year 1998 witnessed the publication of Wilkie Collins: An Illustrated Guide (Gasson, 1998). A year later witnessed the first publication of Collins' earliest novel written nearly 150 years earlier in an edition edited and introduced by Ira B. Nadel. Curiously, Iolani, or, Tahiti as it Was receives scant attention in the volume edited by Jenny Bourne Taylor. In 1995 Wilkie Collins to the Forefront: Some Reassessments (Smith and Terry, 1995) was published. It consists of 15 essays originally presented at the Wilkie Collins Centennial Conference held by the University of Victoria, British Columbia, from September 29 to October 1, 1989. In 2003, the University of Tennessee Press published Reality's Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins (Bachman and Cox, 2003). This has 14 contributors on various aspects of Collins oeuvre and aims to deliberately expand Collins' afterlife beyond The Woman in White and The Moonstone.