In his 1852 novel Basil , Wilkie Collins\' narrator concludes that "those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me ... are acted and reacted, scene by scene, year by year, in the Secret Theatre of home." Taking this memorable quote as her starting point, Jenny Bourne Taylor demonstrates how Victorian Psychology is central to an understanding of the complexity and vitality of Collins\' fiction, exploring the boundaries of mind/body, sanity/madness, an. are not to be written, but ...
In his 1852 novel Basil , Wilkie Collins\' narrator concludes that "those ghastly heart-tragedies laid open before me ..