Wilkie Collins

LYN PYKETT, Professor of English and currently Head of the Department of English at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, is the author of numerous books and essays on nineteenth and twentieth century fiction and cultural history, including Emily Bronte (also published by Macmillan); The Improper Feminine; The New Woman Writing; The Sensation Novel from 'The Woman in White to The Moonstone; Engendering Fictions: The English Novel in the Early Twentieth Century. She has also edited a collection of essays on late turn-of-the-century writing, Reading Fin de Siecle Fictions.

• AcknowledgementsGeneral Editor's PrefaceIntroduction; L.PykettWhat is 'Sensational' about the 'Sensational Novel'; P.BrantlingerThe Counterworld of Victorian Fiction and The Woman in White; U.C.KoepflmacherThe Sensationalism of The Woman in White; W.KendrickReading Detection in The Woman in White; M.M.Hennely, JrGhostlier Determinations: The Economy of Sensation and The Woman in White; A.CvetkovichRewriting the Male Plot in Wilkie Collins's No Name; D.DavidArmdaleThe Sensitive Subject as Palimpsest; J.B.TaylorDreams, Transformations and Literature: The Implications of Detective Fiction; A.D.HutterFrom roman policier to roman-police: Wilkie Collins's The Moonstone; D.A.MillerFamily Secrets and the Mysteries of The Moonstone; E.R.GrunerBlank Spaces: Ideological tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone; T.HellerFurther ReadingNotes on the ContributorsIndex.