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Chapter 33 - Class Status and Social Identity
from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
- By Jenny Bourne Taylor
Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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Wilkie Collins in Context

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27 July 2023

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10 August 2023, pp 299-308
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Collins’s fiction often exposes the constructed nature of class and social identity by demonstrating how unstable such supposedly ’fixed’ identifiers are, most notably in The Woman in White and No Name.

Chapter 35 - Ethics
from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
- By Biwu Shang
Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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Wilkie Collins in Context

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27 July 2023

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10 August 2023, pp 318-323
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An analysis of The Woman in White, arguing it presents a central ethical dilemma for both its characters and readers to resolve, and therefore the novel acts as an excellent example of ethical criticism

Chapter 34 - Disability
from Part IV - Contexts: Cultural and Social
- By Heather Tilley
Edited by William Baker, Hangzhou Normal University, China and Northern Illinois University, Richard Nemesvari, Wilfrid Laurier University, Ontario
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Wilkie Collins in Context

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27 July 2023

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10 August 2023, pp 309-317
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Collins focused on the experience and meaning of disability in a number of his novels