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The Marriage Plot in Wilkie Collins's The Woman in White and James Wilson's The Dark Clue

This thesis analyses the use of the marriage plot in Victorian novels, more specifically in Wilkie Collins‘s The Woman in White (1860), and its appropriation in James Wilson‘s neo-Victorian novel The Dark Clue (2001). By examining the marriage plot and its relationship to the changing notions of marriage in the Victorian period, the thesis offers a broad analysis of the gender dynamics in middle-class marriages as portrayed in these two novels. The analysis will be carried out through a close reading of both novels, followed by a contextualization that will explore the historical and literary trends they belong to. Special attention will be given to the analysis of the neo-Victorian re-imagining of Collins‘s characters in Wilson‘s novel.

marriage, marriage plot, The Woman in White, The Dark Clue, Wilkie Collins, James Wilson, Victorianism, Neo-Victorianism

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