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PublisherBroadview Press

ISBN-10155111447X

ISBN-139781551114477

eBay Product ID (ePID)2309574925

Product Key Features

Book TitleBlind Love

Number of Pages465 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicLiterary, Mystery & Detective / Traditional

Publication Year2003

IllustratorYes

GenreFiction

AuthorWilkie Collins

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1 in

Item Weight22 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2004-540988

Dewey Edition22

Reviews"This edition of Collins's Blind Love offers the best of modern scholarship-it is impossible to praise it too much. Professors Bachman and Cox add considerably to Broadview's series of reasonably-priced fine scholarly editions." - A.D. Hutter, UCLA

Dewey DecimalFIC

Table Of ContentAcknowledgements Historical Context: The Irish Question Wilkie Collins's Response to the Irish Question Anglo-Saxon vs. Celt: The Imperialist Agenda Wilkie Collins and the "Woman Question" The Von Scheurer Fraud Blind Love: The History and Evolution of the Text William Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology A Note on the Text Blind Love Appendix A: Reaction to the Death of Wilkie Collins "Death of Mr.Wilkie Collins," The Times, 24 September 1889 "The Late Mr.Wilkie Collins," The Illustrated London News, 28 September 1889 "Obituary.Wilkie Collins," The Academy, 28 September 1889 Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews of Collins's Work Edmund Yates, "The Works of Wilkie Collins," Temple Bar, August 1890 Meredith White Thompson,"Wilkie Collins," The Spectator, 28 September 1889 George Cotterell, "New Novels," The Academy, 15 March 1890 "Blind Love," New York Tribune, 23 January 1890 Andrew Lang, "Mr. Wilkie Collins's Novels," Contemporary Review, January 1890 Harold Quilter, "In Memoriam Amici: Wilkie Collins," The Universal Review, 5, 1889 Appendix C: Horace Pym's Notes on the Von Scheurer Case Appendix D: Newspaper Accounts of the Insurance Trial "The Scheurer Frauds," The Times, 25 April 1888 "France," The Times, 26 April 1888 "France," The Times, 27 April 1888 Appendix E: The Prologue to "Iris," Manuscript "C," 1887 Appendix F: Excerpts from Collins's Plans for Blind Love: The Synopsis The Cast of Characters The Synopsis Appendix G: The Irish Question Accounts from The Times, 1882 The Irish as Depicted in Punch, 1866, 1881, 1882 Appendix H: The Duties of the Lady's Maid Select Bibliography

SynopsisBlind Loveis Wilkie Collins's final novel. Although he did not live to complete the work, he left detailed plans for the last third of this absorbingly plotted novel which were faithfully executed by his colleague, the popular author Walter Besant. The novel is set during the Irish Land War of the early 1880s and tells the story of Iris Henley, an independent young woman who marries the "wild" Lord Harry Norland, a member of an Irish secret society, and becomes unhappily drawn into a conspiracy plot. The Broadview edition of Blind Loveincludes a critical introduction and primary source materials that address the novel's focus on movements for Irish independence. Appendices include newspaper accounts of Ireland during the Land War and of the fraud case on which Collins based his story, articles reacting to Collins's sudden death, Punchcartoons depicting the English attitudes toward the Irish, and contemporary reviews., "This edition of Collins's Blind Loveoffers the best of modern scholarship--it is impossible to praise it too much." -- A.D. Hutter, UCLA

LC Classification NumberPR4494.B5 2004