Suggested Bibliography--The Woman in White
Ablow, Rachel. “Good Vibrations: The Sensationalization of Masculinity in The
Woman in White.” Novel: A Forum on Fiction 37.1/2 (2004): 158-80.
Auerbach, Nina. Woman and the Demon: The Life of a Victorian Myth. Harvard UP,
1982. 135-43.
Balée, Susan. “Wilkie Collins and Surplus Women: The Case of Marian
Halcombe.” Victorian Literature and Culture 20 (1992): 197-215.
Barickman, Richard, Susan MacDonald, and Myra Stark. Corrupt Relations:
Dickens, Thackeray, Trollope, Collins, and theVictorian Sexual System. New
York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
Baylee, Susan. "Wilkie Collins and Surplus Women: The Case of Marian
Halcomb." Victorian Literature and Culture 29 (1992): 197-215.
Bernstein, Stephen. "Reading Blackwater Park: Gothicism, Narrative, and Ideology
in The Woman in White." Studies in the Novel 25.3 (Fall 1993): 291-305.
Bernstein, Susan. “Ape Anxiety: Sensation Fiction, Evolution, and the Genre
Question.” Journal of Victorian Culture 6.2 (Autumn 2001): 250-272.
Brooks, Peter. Reading for the Plot: Design and Intention in Narrative. NY: Knopf, 1984.
Bronfen, Elizabeth. "Necromancy, or Closing the Crack on the Gravestone."
Over Her Dead Body: Death, Femininity and the Aesthetic. New York:
Routledge, 1992.
Chattman, Lauren. “Diagnosing the Domestic Woman in The Woman in White and
Dora.” In Carol Siegel and Ann Kibbey, ed. Eroticism and Containment: Notes
from the Flood Plain. New York: New York UP, 1994. 123-53.
Collins, Richard. “Marian’s Moustache: Bearded Ladies, Hermaphrodites, and
Intersexual Collage in The Woman in White.” In Maria K. Bachman and
Don Richard Cox, ed. Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins.
Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P, 2003. 131-72.
Cvetkovich, Ann. "Ghostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The
Woman in White." Novel 23.1 (Fall 1989): 24-43.
Collins biblio. (2)
Denisoff, Dennis. “Framed and Hung: Collins and the Economic Beauty of the
Manly Artist.” In Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox, ed. Reality’s
Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins. Knoxville, TN: U of Tennessee P,
2003. 34-58.
Elam, Diane. "White Narratology: Gender and Reference in Wilkie Collins's The
Woman in White." Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature. Ed.
Lloyd Davis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 1993. 49-63.
Freeland, Natalka. “From ‘Foreign Peculiarities’ to ‘Fatal Resemblance’:
Detecting Villainy in The Woman in White”. In Stacy Gillis and Philippa
Gates, ed. The Devil Himself: Villainy in Detective Fiction and Film.
Westport, CT: Greenwood, 2002. 39-55.
Fu, Yu-hsiang Bennnett. “Re-Imag(in)ing (Fe)male Subjectivities in The Woman in
White." Studies in Language and Literature 9 (June 2000): 183-202.
Gaylin, Ann. “The Madwoman Outside the Attic: Eavesdropping and Narrative
Agency in The Woman in White.” Texas Studies in Language and Literature
43.3 (Fall 2001): 303-33.
Gindele, Karen C. “Wonders Taken for Signs: Marian and Fosco in The Woman in
White.” Lit. and Psychology 46.3 (2000): 65-76.
Griffin, Susan N. “The Yellow Mask, the Black Robe, and the Woman in White:
Wilkie Collins, anti-Catholic Discourse, and the Sensation Novel.”
Narrative 12.1 (January 2004): 55-73.
Halberstam, Judith. “The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly: Men, Women and
Masculinity.” In Judith Kegan Gardiner, ed. Masculinity Studies and
Feminist Theory: New Directions. New York: Columbia UP, 202. 344-67.
Hall, Donald. Fixing Patriarchy. New York: New York UP, 1996.
Hall, Jasmine Yong. “What’s Troubling About Esther? Narrating, Policing, and
Resisting Arrest in Bleak House.” Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian
Fiction 22 (1993): 171-94.
Heller, Tamar. "The Woman in White: Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man."
In Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic. New Haven: Yale
University Press, 1979.
Collins biblio. (3)
Hennelly, Mark M. "Reading Detection in The Woman in White." Texas Studies in
Literature and Language 22 (1980).
Hughes, Winifred. "Wilkie Collins: The Triumph of the Detective." In The Maniac in
the Cellar: Sensation Novels of the 1860s. Princeton: Princeton UP, 1980.
Hutter, A. D. “Fosco Lives!” Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox, ed.
Reality’s Dark Light: The Sensational Wilkie Collins. Knoxville, TN: U of
Tennessee P, 2003. 195-238.
Hyder, Clyde. "Wilkie Collins and The Woman in White." Victorian Literature. Ed.
Austin Wright. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1961.
Kendrick, Walter, M. "The Sensationalism of The Woman in White." NineteenthCentury Fiction 32 (1977).
Knoepflmacher, U. C. "The Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in
White." In The Worlds of Victorian Fiction. Ed. Jerome H. Buckley.
Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard UP, 1975.
Langbauer, Laurie. "Women in White, Men in Feminism." The Yale Journal of
Criticism: Interpretation in the Humanities. [comp. to Great Expectations]
Langland, Elizabeth. Nobody's Angels: Middle-Class Women and Domestic Ideology
in Victorian Culture. Ithaca and London: Cornell UP, 1995. 233-240
Leavy, Barbara Fass. "Wilkie Collins' Cinderella: The History of Psychology and
The Woman in White." Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 10
(1982): 91-141.
Ledwon, Lenora. "Veiled Women, the Law of Coverture, and Wilkie Collins's
The Woman in White. Victorian Literature and Culture 22 (1994: 1-22.
Litvak, Joseph. Caught in the Act: Theatricality in the Nineteenth-Century English
Novel. Berkeley and Los Angeles: Univ. of California Press, 1992. (cf. 128134)
Loesberg, Jonathan. "The Ideology of Narrative Form in Sensation Fiction."
Representations 13 (Winter 1986): 115-38.
Lonoff, Sue. Wilkie Collins and His Victorian Readers: A Study in the Rhetoric of
Authorship. New York: AMS Press, 1982.
Collins biblio. (4)
Lougy, Robert E. Inaugural Wounds: The Shaping of Desire in Five NineteenthCentury English Narratives. Athens, OH: Ohio UP, 2004.
MacDonagh, Gwendoyn. “’Fill Up All the Gaps’: Narrative and Illegitimacy in
The Woman in White.” Journal of Narrative Technique 26.3 (Fall 1996): 274-91.
Mangham, Andrew. “’What Could I Do?’ Nineteenth-Century Psychology and
the Horrors of Masculinity in The Woman in White.” In Kimberly Harrison
and Richard Fantina, ed. Victorian Sensations: Essays on a Scandalous Genre.
Columbus, OH: Ohio State UP, 2006. 115-25.
McKelvy, William R. “The Woman in White and Graphic Sex.” Victorian Literature
and Culture 35.1 (2007): 287-308.
Meckier, Jerome. "Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White: Providence against the
Evils of Propriety." Journal of British Studies 22.1 (Fall 1982): 104-26.
Milbank, Alison. "Hidden and Sought: Wilkie Collins's Gothic Fiction."
Daughters of the House: Modes of the Gothic in Victorian Fiction. New York:
St. Martin's Press, 1992.
Miller, D. A. Cages aux Folles: Sensation and Gender in Wilkie Collins's The
Woman in White." In Speaking of Gender. Ed. Elaine Showalter. NY:
Routledge, 1989.
Nayder, Lillian. "Agents of Empire in The Woman in White." Victorian Newsletter
83 (Spring 1993): 1-7.
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Nemesvari, Richard. “The Mark of the Brotherhood: Homosexual Panic and the
Foreign Other in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White.” In Richard
Fantina, ed. Straight Writ Queer: Non-Normative Expressions of
Heterosexuality in Literature. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2006. 95-108.
O'Neill, Philip. Wilkie Collins: Women, Property and Propriety. London:
Macmillan, 1988.
Oulton, Carolyn. “’The Good Angel of Our Lives’: Subversive Religion and The
Woman in White. Dickens Studies Annual (30 (2001): 309-20.
Page, Norman. Wilkie Collins: The Critical Heritage. NY: Routledge, 1974.
Collins biblio. (5)
Pedlar, Valerie. “Drawing a Blank: The Construction of Identity in The Woman in
White.” In Dennis Walder, ed. The Nineteenth-Century Novel: Identities.
London: Open UP; Routledge, 2001. 69-94.
Perkins, Pamela and Mary Donaghy. "A Man's Resolution: Narrative Strategies
in Wilkie Collins' The Woman in White." Studies in the Novel 22.4 (Winter
1990): 392-402.
Pykett, Lyn, ed. Wilkie Colllins: New Casebooks. New York: St. Martin's, 1998.
----. “Collins and the Sensation Novel.” In Jenny Bourne Taylor. The Cambridge
Companion to Wilkie Collins. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2006. 50-64.
Rance, Nicholas. Wilkie Collins and Other Sensation Novelists: Walking the Moral
Hospital. Rutherford: Fairleigh Dickinson UP, 1991.
Reynolds, Kimberly and Nicola Humble. Victorian Heroines. New York: NYU Press,
1993.
Salotto, Eleanor. Gothic Returns in Collins, Dickens, Zola, and Hitchcock. New
York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
Schmitt, Cannon. “Alien Nation: Gender, Genre, and English National Identity
in Wilkie Collins’s The Woman in White." Genre: Forms of Discourse and
Culture 26.2-3 (Summer-Fall 1993): 283-310.
Shuttleworth, Sally. “Preaching to the Nerves: Psychological Disorder in
Sensation Fiction." In Marina Benjamin, ed. A Question of Identity: Women,
Science, and Literature. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1993.
192-222.
Small, Helen. “The Woman in White, Great Expectations, and the Limits of
Medicine.” Love’s Madness: Medicine, the Novel, and Female Insanity, 18001865. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.
Stern, Rebecca. “’Personation’ and ‘Good Marking Ink’: Sanity, Performativity,
and Biology in Victorian Sensation Fiction.” Nineteenth-Century Studies 14
(2000): 35-62.
Sternlieb, Lisa. “Marian Halcomb: Appropriating an Identity.” The Female Narrator in The
British Novel: Hidden Agendas. New York: Palgrave, 2002.
Collins biblio. (6)
Surridge, Lisa. “Strange Revelations: The Divorce Court, the Newspaper, and
The Woman in White.” Bleak Houses: Marital Violence in Victorian Fiction.
Athens, OH, Ohio UP, 2005. 132-165.
Sutherland, John. "Wilkie Collins and the Origins of the Sensation Novel."
Dickens Studies Annual: Essays on Victorian Fiction 20 (1991): 243-58.
Talairach-Vielmas, Laurence. Wilkie Collins, Medicine and the Gothic. Cardiff:
University of Wales Press, 2009.
Taylor, Jeremy Bourne. In the Secret Theatre of Home: Wilkie Collins, Sensation
Narrative, and Nineteenth-Century Psychology. London and NY: Routledge,
1988.
Thoms, Peter. “Escaping the Plot: The Quest for Selfhood in The Woman in White.
In Nelson Smith and R.C. Terry, ed. Wilkie Collins to the Forefront: Some
Reassessments. New York: AMS, 1995. 183-207.
Tromp, Marlene. "Brutality and Propriety: Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White
and the Divorce Act of 1857." In The Private Rod: Marital Violence,
Sensation, and the Law in Victorian Britain. Charlottesville and London: U
of Virginia P 2000. 69-102.