Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science
Art and Argument in Charles Reade’s Hard Cash and Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science

Author(s): Małgorzata Nitka
Subject(s): Cultural history, Studies of Literature, 19th Century, Philology, British Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Charles Reade; Wilkie Collins; insanity; vivisection; mission
Summary/Abstract: This article discusses and compares two novels with a mission or social purpose that concentrate on themes connected with, in the case of Charles Reade’s matter-of-fact romance Hard Cash (1863), the treatment of insanity, and in that of Wilkie Collins’s Heart and Science (1883), vivisection. The author concludes that in furthering a didactic purpose, neither novel departs far from the sensation framework.

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