The Moonstone Wilkie Collins

In 1987, Michael McKeon theorized that the novel form developed concomitant with the rise of the individual in English society. This correlation implies that the novel marked a shift from a communal experience of literature to a solitary...

One of the main themes developed in the passage from the novella “The Moonstone,” by Wilkie Collins, is the indelibility of memories and by consequence, of the past. The past comes back to haunt the present constantly throughout the passage,...

The Victorian depiction of the masculine is divided by not only class factors but also by degrees of gender conformity and morality, it is this conformity and morality that shapes the role of the masculine narrative in Victorian literature. In...

In Wilkie Collins’ The Moonstone, which is regarded as the first true English detective novel, the story of a priceless Indian diamond is told through a series of changing narrators. The diamond is stolen three times throughout its’ recorded...

Annoying, hypocritical, obsessive, sanctimonious; these are just some of the many ways to describe Drusilla Clack in The Moonstone. An irritating distant relative of the Verinders with a holier-than-thou attitude, she provides her own narrative...

In Wilkie Collins' The Moonstone, the reader is presented with a mystery to be solved and is given access to the same information as the novel's various investigators. The reader is thus placed in the position of an active participant in the...