Peter Thoms
Author of…
Windings of the Labyrinth
Quest and Structure in the Major Novels of Wilkie Collins
Author of such feats of storytelling as The Woman in White and The Moonstone, Wilkie Collins has traditionally been recognized far more than for his accomplishments as a serious novelist.…
Detection and Its Designs
Narrative and Power in Nineteenth-Century Detective Fiction
Detective fiction is usually thought of as genre fiction, a vast group of works bound together by their use of a common formula. But, as Peter Thoms argues in his investigation of some of the most important texts in the development of detective fiction in the nineteenth century, the very works that establish the genre's formulaic structure also subvert that structure.…
