A victim in search of a torturer: reading masochism in Wilkie Collins's 'No Name'

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Wilkie Collins's novel 'No Name' requires self-controlled readers interested in deviant behavior and pleased when literary conventions are challenged. The plot, main characters, and use of sympathy in this book force readers to examine individual action in the context of the regulatory mechanisms of disciplinary power.

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Addiction, empire, and narrative in Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of the Four'

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Arthur Conan Doyle's 'The Sign of the Four' compares the body of the fictional Sherlock Holmes to the political body of England, with Holmes's addiction to cocaine symbolic of decline in England's imperial power. The 4 linked crosses that form the center of the book's cryptogram are compared to 4 scenes in the novel.

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The romance of choice and 'The Wings of the Dove'

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Issues discussed concern the portrayal of social norms and individual choice in Henry James' novel, 'The Wings of the Dove.' Topics addressed include the relationship between the public and private spheres in modern society, human agency and rational choice, and the social aspects of modernist displacement.

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