CONTENTS

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
4. Introduction: Dead Secrets 1
5. 1. Reigns of Terror: The Politics of the Female Gothic 13
6. 2. Becoming an Author in 1848: History and the Gothic in the Early Works of Wilkie Collins 38
7. 3. Basil: Femininity, Ressentiment, and the Male Artist 58
8. 4. Writing after Dark: Collins and Victorian Literary Culture 82
9. 5. The Woman in White: Portrait of the Artist as a Professional Man 110
10. 6. Blank Spaces: Ideological Tensions and the Detective Work of The Moonstone 142
11. Epilogue: The Haunted Narrative 164
12. NOTES 169
13. INDEX 197