We’re very happy to announce a new ebook edition of Jenny Bourne Taylor’s classic study of Wilkie Collins, In the Secret Theatre of Home. In his 1852 novel Basil, Wilkie Collins’ narrator concludes that “those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me … are not to be written, but … are acted and reacted, scene by scene, year by year, in the secret theatre of home.” Taking this memorable quote as her starting point, Taylor demonstrates how Victorian psychology is central to an understanding of the complexity and vitality of Collins’s fiction, exploring the boundaries of mind/body, sanity/madness, and consciousness/unconsciousness.
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