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Ann;Woman in white;Law and the lady;Haunted hotel;Mysteries of Udolpho;English fiction;sensation novel;gothic novel;narrative in fiction;gender roles;female characters;female isolation;first person narrators;storytelling technique;Victorian England;literary criticism

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Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton Apr 2005

Textual Possession: Manipulating Narratives In Wilkie Collins's Sensation Fiction, Kieran Ayton

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Examines the mechanisms through which Collins updated the gothic novel to create the sensation novel, with particular emphasis on The Woman in White, The Law and the Lady, and The Haunted Hotel. Highlights Collins's use of transgressive gender characterization, whereby his main characters use documents to gain social power over other characters. Describes the influence of Ann Radcliffe's gothic novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho, on The Woman in White.

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