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Wilkie Collins's Library
A Reconstruction
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William Baker
ISBN:
0-313-31394-6
ISBN-13:
978-0-313-31394-3
DOI:
DOI:10.1336/0313313946
216 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication:
3/30/2002
List Price:
$91.95
(
UK Sterling Price: £63.95
)
Availability:
In Stock
Media Type:
Hardcover
Trim Size:
6 1/8 x 9 1/4
Subjects:
Literature
»
English Literature
Series Title:
Bibliographies and Indexes in World Literature
Description:
Wilkie Collins (1824-1889) is a major British Victorian novelist, dramatist, short story writer, and journalist. He is best known today as the author of ^IThe Moonstone,^R which T.S. Eliot called the first and greatest English detective novel. He has been the subject of two recent biographies, and a revival of interest in his works is now under way. In particular, there is growing concern with his intellectual development, as witnessed by the 1999 publication of his collected letters. This reconstruction of his library offers a thorough analysis of the books he owned and his response to them and thus illuminates Collins as a reader and writer.
The book begins with a narrative discussion of the contents of Collins's library and its auction. This introductory essay sheds light on the types of books he owned, his use of those texts in his writings, and the dispersion of his collection in 1890. The bulk of the volume provides annotated entries for each item from his library. Entries include publication and bibliographic information, descriptions from sale catalogs, information about the author of the item, citations of the book or author from Collins's letters, and information on the present location or subsequent history of the item. An appendix catalogs paintings and artwork in Collins's possession at the time of his death.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Introduction
Wilkie Collins and His Books
The 1890 Dispersion of Wilkie Collins's Library
The Composition of Wilkie Collins's Library
Conclusion
Reconstruction of Wilkie Collins's Library
Appendix
Index
About the Author:
WILLIAM BAKER is Professor, Department of English, and Professor, University Libraries, at Northern Illinois University. His previous books include
Recent Work in Critical Theory, 1989-1995: An Annotated Bibliography
(1996),
Twentieth-Century Bibliography and Textual Criticism: An Annotated Bibliography
(2000), and
A Companion to the Victorian Novel
(2002), all available from Greenwood Press. He also coedited
The Letters of Wilkie Collins
(1999), and has been awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for 2002-2003 to edit another three volumes of Wilkie Collins's letters.
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