Dead Secrets: Wilkie Collins and the Female Gothic

Abstract

Introduction - dead secrets reigns of terror - the politics of the female gothic becoming an author in 1848 - history and the gothic in the early works of Wilkie Collins Basil - femininity, Ressentiment and the male artist writing after dark - Collins and Victorian literary culture The Woman in White - portrait of the artist as a professional man blank spaces - ideological tensions and the detective work of The Moonstone.