![]() ![]() ![]() There were a number of elements that enabled Collins to achieve this. Collins himself called it “the secret theatre of home”. As Henry James commented, ‘to Mr Collins belongs the credit of having introduced into fiction those most mysterious mysteries of mysteries, the mysteries which are at our own doors’.”. brought the terrors of the Gothic novel down from mouldering Italian castles into the back parlours and drawing rooms of a recognisably modern, middle class Victorian England…. As Matthew Sweet says, “Using a high-impact style of narrative that put its characters through a series of extreme mental experiences, Collins. The book is now generally regarded as the first sensation novel, an influential genre of Victorian-era fiction – a precursor of modern genre of detective fiction - which “fused the apprehensive thrills of Gothic literature with the psychological realism of the domestic novel”. ![]() In the more than a century and a half since then, Collins’ book has never been out of print and is still enjoying considerable success, with numerous reissues and stage and screen adaptations, including Andrew Lloyd Webber’s 2004 stage musical and a 2018 BBC television mini-series. ![]()
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