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The moonstone / by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

The moonstone / by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

The moonstone / by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

The moonstone / by Collins, Wilkie, 1824-1889

The moonstone and the woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie

The moonstone and the woman in white / by Collins, Wilkie

Gemlore ancient secrets and modern myths from the stone age to the rock age / by Morgan, Diane, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Agate -- Amber -- Amethyst -- Aquamarine -- Bloodstone -- Carnelian -- Cat's-eye -- Chalcedony -- Chrysoprase -- Citrine -- Coral -- Diamond -- Emerald -- Garnet -- Hematite -- Jade -- Jasper -- Jet -- Lapis lazuli -- Malachite -- Moonstone -- Onyx -- Opal -- Pearl -- Peridot -- Rock crystal -- Rose quartz -- Ruby -- Sapphire -- Sardonyx -- Smoky quartz -- Topaz -- Turquoise -- Zircon.…”
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Gemlore ancient secrets and modern myths from the stone age to the rock age / by Morgan, Diane, 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Agate -- Amber -- Amethyst -- Aquamarine -- Bloodstone -- Carnelian -- Cat's-eye -- Chalcedony -- Chrysoprase -- Citrine -- Coral -- Diamond -- Emerald -- Garnet -- Hematite -- Jade -- Jasper -- Jet -- Lapis lazuli -- Malachite -- Moonstone -- Onyx -- Opal -- Pearl -- Peridot -- Rock crystal -- Rose quartz -- Ruby -- Sapphire -- Sardonyx -- Smoky quartz -- Topaz -- Turquoise -- Zircon.…”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? : Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood -- Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Afterword /Janice M. …”
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Wilkie Collins interdisciplinary essays

Table of Contents: “…Too absurdly repulsive : generic indeterminacy and the failure of The fallen leaves / Anne-Marie Beller -- A distaste for matrimonial sauce : the celebration of bachelorhood in the journalism and fiction of Collins and Dickens / Holly Furneaux -- Parallel worlds : Collins's sensationalism and spiritual practice / Tatiana Kontou -- Text and image together : the influence of illustration and the Victorian market in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Clare Douglass -- The face of the adversary in the novels of Wilkie Collins / Aoife Leahy -- Mental states : political and psychological conflict in Antonina / Andrew Mangham -- Reading faces : physiognomy and the depiction of the heroine in the fiction of Wilkie Collins / Jessica Cox -- Questioning moral inheritance in The legacy of Cain / Amanda Mordavsky Caleb -- Habituation and incarceration : mental physiology and asylum abuse in The woman in white and Dracula / William Hughes -- Heart and science and vivisection's threat to women / Greta Depledge -- The Scotch verdict and irregular marriages : how Scottish law disrupts the normative in The law and the lady and Man and wife / Anne Longmuir -- Collins on international copyright : from A national wrong (1870) to Considerations (1880) / Graham Law -- The dangerous brother : family transgression in The haunted hotel / Lynn Parker -- Twin-sisters and theatrical thieves : Wilkie Collins and the dramatic adaptation of The moonstone / Richard Pearson -- Sensation drama? : Collins's stage adaptation of The woman in white / Janice Norwood -- Detecting buried secrets : recent film versions of The woman in white and The moonstone / Stefani Brusberg-Kiermeier -- Afterword /Janice M. …”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright : Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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Wilkie Collins and Copyright : Artistic Ownership in the Age of the Borderless Word / by Bisla, Sundeep, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : Wilkie Collins, theorist of iterability -- The manuscript as writer's estate in Basil -- The woman in white : the perils of attempting to discipline the transatlantic, transhistorical narrative -- Over-doing things with words in 1862 : pretense and plain truth in No name -- Ingesting the other in Armadale -- The return of the author : privacy, publication, the mystery novel, and The moonstone -- Conclusion : real absences : Collins's waiting shadows.…”
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The nineteenth-century sensation novel by Pykett, Lyn

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The nineteenth-century sensation novel by Pykett, Lyn

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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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Wilkie Collins, Vera Caspary and the evolution of the casebook novel by Emrys, A. B., 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Framed: a brief history of documents as narrative frames -- How he wrote his books: the apprentice years of framing testimony -- The woman in white: Collins launches the casebook novel -- Counterpoint witnessing in No name and Armadale -- The moonstone: Collins eclipses his first casebook -- Framed testimony in Collins's later novels -- The casebook after Collins -- Before Laura: Vera Caspary's early career and novels -- Laura: sensation roots of a noir novel -- Laura and Bedelia: "new woman" noir -- After Laura: Caspary's other casebook novels -- Caspary continues multiple focus -- Reframed: multiple focus in popular and literary texts -- Conclusion.…”
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