Wilkie Collins and the politics of adaptation on the Victorian stage

Thesis

As the sensation novel was reclaimed by literary critics and cultural historians as a legitimate site of academic inquiry in the mid-twentieth century, Wilkie Collins’s canonical works became the topic of much scholarly interest. His works have consistently been identified as the locus of a plethora of narrative and formal innovations that have irrevocably shaped how we understand both the Victorian novel and its successors. As this thesis will demonstrate, however, Collins’s writing for t...

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Authors: Laurella, R

• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: University of Oxford
• Language: English
• Keywords: copyright; adaptation; Wilkie Collins; intellectual property; theatre; Victorian literature and culture
• Subjects: Literature; Adaptation; Theater