A decade later, Sibyl, now Lady Penrith, is travelling along a desolate moor when a crazed man stops her carriage and hands her a scrawled note. Believing the note to be from Mountford,...

Throughout his career, Wilkie Collins made changes to the prototypical gothic scenario, reworking and adapting aristocratic villains, victimized maidens, and medieval castles in order to thrill his Victorian readership. Drawing upon contemporary anxieties introduced by advances in neuroscience and the development of criminology, Collins transformed Moorish castles into modern medical institutions and ghost-fearing heroines into nineteenth-century women who feared the surgeon s knife. This volume uniquely explores the way in which Collin s gothic revisions increasingly tackled such medical...

Qu elle soit appelee meurtriere, assassine ou tueuse, la femme qui commet un homicide elude les categories usuelles: elle derange l ordre social, bouleverse les rapports de forces symboliques et inquiete les dispositifs judiciaires. Cet ouvrage collectif bilingue (francais et anglais) interroge la maniere dont l ecriture ou la reecriture du meurtre au feminin contribue a faconner et a problematiser la memoire collective de ces affaires criminelles qui font figure d exception.

Female murderers often elude firmly established categories as they disrupt the social and symbolic orders...