Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. The Collaborations of Dickens and Collins xi
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1. Professional Writers and Hired Hands: Household Words and the Victorian Publishing Business 15
8. 2. Collins Joins Dickens’s Management Team: “The Wreck of the Golden Mary” 35
9. 3. The Cannibal, the Nurse, and the Cook: Variants of The Frozen Deep 60
10. 4. Class Consciousness and the Indian Mutiny: The Collaborative Fiction of 1857 100
11. 5. “No Thoroughfare”: The Problem of Illegitimacy 129
12. 6. Crimes of the Empire, Contagion of the East: The Moonstone and The Mystery of Edwin Drood 163
13. Conclusion: “This Unclean Spirit of Imitation”: Dickens and the “Problem” of Collins’s Influence 198
14. Works Cited 203
15. Index 211