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  • Chapter 27 - Music

  • from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
  • Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
  • Book:
    Wilkie Collins in Context
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 245-251

  • Summary

    An exploration of Collins’s musical likes and dislikes. He particularly disliked ’German’ music of the nineteenth century, with particular scorn for Schumann and Beethoven, although he admired Mozart

  • Chapter 3 - Publishers and Editions

  • from Part I - Life and Works
  • Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
  • Book:
    Wilkie Collins in Context
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 19-32

  • Summary

    During his writing career Collins used nine English publishers for first editions in book form, starting with Longman (1848) for the biography of his father and ending with Chatto & Windus, which ultimately took over twenty-nine of his copyrights. Collins was a firm but fair negotiator but particularly so when he was established as an author, when he would frequently change publishers in order to secure the most advantageous financial arrangement.

  • Chapter 29 - Law

  • from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
  • Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
  • Book:
    Wilkie Collins in Context
    Published online:
    27 July 2023
    Print publication:
    10 August 2023, pp 262-270

  • Summary

    Collins trained as lawyer and took the Bar as a young man, but never practised law. In much of his fiction the law is presented as either complicit with power or actively pernicious in its preservation of rigid social codes

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