Man and Wife - Brossura

Collins, Wilkie

Brossura

ISBN 10: 019283696X ISBN 13: 9780192836960

Casa editrice: Oxford Paperbacks, 1998

Riassunto

`This time the fiction is founded upon facts' stated Wilkie Collins in his Preface to Man and Wife (1870). Many Victorian writers responded to contemporary debates on the rights and the legal status of women, and here Collins questions the deeply inequitable marriage laws of his day. Man and Wife examines the plight of a woman who, promised marriage by one man, comes to believe that she may inadvertently have gone through a form of marriage with his friend, as recognized by the archaic laws of Scotland and Ireland. From this starting-point Collins develops a radical critique of the values and conventions of Victorian society. Collins had already developed a reputation as the master of the `sensation novel', and Man and Wife is as fast moving and unpredictable as The Moonstone and The Woman in White. During the novel the atmosphere grows increasingly sinister as the setting moves from a country house to a London suburb and a world of confinement, plotting, and murder.

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• Editore: Oxford Paperbacks
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 019283696X
• ISBN 13: 9780192836960
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 688
• Redattore: Page Norman