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- Title
Selective Affinities: Non-Normative Families in Wilkie Collins's No Name.
- Authors
SIMPSON, VICKY
- Abstract
The article discusses the Victorian book "No Name" by Wilkie Collins, focusing on the depictions of non-normative, illegitimate families in the book. Other topics include the importance of emotional ties in forming a family over legal and biological ties, the desirability of the social benefits associated with legitimate families, and discussion of the familial relationships of the characters.
- Subjects
NO Name (Book); COLLINS, Wilkie, 1824-1889; FAMILIES in literature; NONTRADITIONAL families in literature; NUCLEAR families; FAMILY relations in literature; LITERARY criticism; 19TH century English literature
- Publication
Victorian Review, 2013, Vol 39, Issue 2, p115
- ISSN
0848-1512
- Publication type
Literary Criticism
- DOI
10.1353/vcr.2013.0056