CRITICISM

Cvetkovich, Ann. “Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White.” In Novel: A Forum on Fiction Vol. 23, No. 1 (Fall 1989): 24-43.

Argues that the rhetoric of fate and chance in Walter Hartright's narrative serves to mystify many of the sensational elements in The Woman in White.

Elam, Diane. “White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White. In Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Fiction, edited by Lloyd Davis, pp. 49-63. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993.

Considers the relationships between woman, referentiality, and truth in The Woman in White.

Heller, Tamar. Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992, 201 p.

Studies Collins's use of the Gothic to dramatize “female victimization” and “disruptive female sexuality” in his novels, particularly Basil, The Moonstone, and The Woman in White.

Kent, Christopher. “Probability, Reality and Sensation in the Novels of Wilkie Collins.” In Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 20 (1991): 259-80.

Discusses Collins's “redefinition of the boundaries of probability and possibility” in his sensation novels.

Law, Graham. “Wilkie in the Weeklies: The Serialization and Syndication of Collins's Late Novels.” In Victorian Periodicals Review 30, No. 3 (Fall 1997): 244-69.

Details the history of novel serialization as it relates to Collins's works.

Ledwon, Lenora. “Veiled Women, The Law of Coverture, and Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.” In Victorian Literature and Culture 22 (1994): 1-22.

Investigates the theme of a woman's loss of legal identity through marriage in The Woman in White.

MacDonagh, Gwendolyn and Jonathan Smith. “‘Fill Up All the Gaps’: Narrative and Illegitimacy in The Woman in White.” In The Journal of Narrative Technique 26, No. 3 (Fall 1996): 274-91.

Probes the nature of false, legitimate, and transgressive narratives in The Woman in White.

May, Leila Silvana. “Sensational Sisters: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.” In Pacific Coast Philology XXX, No. 1 (1995): 82-102.

Examines sisterly love and its link to the motif of erotic desire in The Woman in White.

Miller, D. A. “Cage aux folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.” In Speaking of Gender, edited by Elaine Showalter, pp. 187-215. New York: Routledge, 1989.

Analyzes the dynamics of bodily sensation and gendered perception in The Woman in White, contending that the work ultimately privileges patriarchal ideology.

Morris, Debra. “Maternal Roles and the Production of Name in Wilkie Collins's No Name.” In Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 27 (1998): 271-86.

Discusses motherly influence in No Name.

Nayder, Lillian. “Agents of Empire in The Woman in White.” In The Victorian Newsletter 83 (Spring 1993): 1-7.

Maintains that Collins presents both a defense and a subversive critique of imperial ideology in The Woman in White.

Pykett, Lyn, ed. New Casebooks: Wilkie Collins. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998, 280 p.

Contains eleven essays on Collins's novels by various contributors.

Roy, Ashish. “The Fabulous Imperialist Semiotic of Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone.” Im New Literary History 24, No. 3 (Summer 1993): 657-81.

Contends that The Moonstoneis “a prototypical imperialist text” that both exhibits and justifies imperialist rule.

Sutherland, John. “Wilkie Collins and the Origins of the Sensation Novel.” In Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 20 (1991): 243-58.

Recounts Collins's numerous contributions to the sensation novel genre.

Taylor, Michael. “‘In the Name of her Sacred Weakness’: Romance, Destiny, and Woman's Revenge in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White.” In University of Toronto Quarterly 64, No. 2 (Spring 1995): 289-304.

Comments on Collins's manipulation of romantic tropes concerning feminine weakness in The Woman in White.

Thomas, Ronald R. “Wilkie Collins and the Sensation Novel.” In The Columbia History of the British Novel, edited by John Richetti, pp. 479-507. New York: Columbia University Press, 1994.

Investigates the mania for sensation novels precipitated by the publication of Collins's works of the 1860s.

Additional coverage of Collins's life and career is contained in the following sources published by the Gale Group: Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, 1832-1890; andDictionary of Literary Biography, Vols. 18, 70, 159.