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Tables of Contents for Reality's Dark Light
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction The Real Wilkie Collins
xi
Maria K. Bachman
Don Richard Cox
Fatal Newness
Basil, Art, and the Origins of Sensation Fiction
1
33
Tim Dolin
Lucy Dougan
Framed and Hung
Collins and the Economic Beauty of the Manly Artist
34
25
Dennis Denisoff
``Bolder with Her Lover in the Dark''
Collins and Disabled Women's Sexuality
59
35
Martha Stoddard Holmes
Chemical Seductions
Exoticism, Toxicology, and the Female Poisoner in Armadale and The Legacy of Cain
94
37
Piya Pal-Lapinski
Marian's Moustache
Bearded Ladies, Hermaphrodites, and Intersexual Collage in The Woman in White
131
42
Richard Collins
The Crystal Palace, Imperialism, and the ``Struggle for Existence''
Victorian Evolutionary Discourse in Collins's The Woman in White
173
22
Gabrielle Ceraldi
Fosco Lives!
195
44
A. D. Hutter
Outlandish English Subjects in The Moonstone
239
74
Timothy L. Carens
``Blue Like Me''
Collins, Poor Miss Finch, and the Construction of Racial Identity
266
17
Lillian Nayder
Plain Faces, Weird Cases
Domesticating the Law in Collins's The Law and the Lady and the Trial of Madeleine Smith
283
30
Karin Jacobson
Collins, Race, and Slavery
313
58
Audrey Fisch
Yesterday's Sensations
Modes of Publication and Narrative Form in Collins's Late Novels
329
32
Graham Law
Afterword Masterpiece Theatre and Ezra Jennings's Hair
Some Reflections on Where We've Been and Where We're Going in Collins Studies
361
10
Tamar Heller
Contributors
371
4
Index
375