Book contents
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Critical Response and Afterlife
- Part III Contexts: Literary
- Part IV Contexts: Cultural and Social
- Chapter 22 Money
- Chapter 23 Gender
- Chapter 24 Science and Medicine
- Chapter 25 Language
- Chapter 26 Collins and the Artists
- Chapter 27 Music
- Chapter 28 Politics
- Chapter 29 Law
- Chapter 30 Geography and Places
- Chapter 31 Victorian Environments
- Chapter 32 Race and Empire
- Chapter 33 Class Status and Social Identity
- Chapter 34 Disability
- Chapter 35 Ethics
- Further Reading
- Index
Chapter 29 - Law
from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 27 July 2023
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Wilkie Collins in Context
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Illustrations
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Chronology
- Abbreviations
- Frontispiece
- Part I Life and Works
- Part II Critical Response and Afterlife
- Part III Contexts: Literary
- Part IV Contexts: Cultural and Social
- Chapter 22 Money
- Chapter 23 Gender
- Chapter 24 Science and Medicine
- Chapter 25 Language
- Chapter 26 Collins and the Artists
- Chapter 27 Music
- Chapter 28 Politics
- Chapter 29 Law
- Chapter 30 Geography and Places
- Chapter 31 Victorian Environments
- Chapter 32 Race and Empire
- Chapter 33 Class Status and Social Identity
- Chapter 34 Disability
- Chapter 35 Ethics
- Further Reading
- Index
Summary
Collins trained as lawyer and took the Bar as a young man, but never practised law. In much of his fiction the law is presented as either complicit with power or actively pernicious in its preservation of rigid social codes
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- Wilkie Collins in Context , pp. 262 - 270Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2023