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Heart and Science Wilkie Collins

Heart and Science By Wilkie Collins

Heart and Science by Wilkie Collins


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Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina.

Heart and Science Summary

Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins

Wilkie Collins's later novels are often as concerned with social issues as they are with simple storytellingbut as more and more critics are suggesting, the best of them are as readable and thought-provoking today as they were when they first appeared. Of none is this more true than of his 1883 novel Heart and Science, which Collins himself placed alongside his masterpiece The Woman in White.

Heart and Science turns on the fate of the orphaned Carmina Graywell, who is left in the charge of her aunt and guardian Mrs. Gallilee when her fiance is forced to take an extended trip to Canada's drier climes in order to recover his health. Over the issue of her inheritance Mrs. Gallilee schemes to manipulate, control and ultimately destroy the naive but strong-willed Carmina. The story is complicated by the machinations of Dr. Benjulia, a dark genius whose passionate devotion to the study of diseases of the brain leads him to encourage the progress of Carmina's life-threatening brain illness for the sake of scientific observation; the narrative builds to a pair of spectacularly lurid climactic scenes.

Collin's novel tackles the debate over what he termed the hideous secrets of Vivisection' with a passionate intensity aroused in large part by the sensational 1880s case of a doctor who was acquitted on charges laid under the new Cruelty to Animals Act of having practiced live experimentation on animals without a license. Excerpts from a contemporary account of this trial, together with other documents relating to the vivisectionist controversy and a variety of contemporary reviews of the book, are included among the appendices of this volume. The edition also includes a full introduction, chronology, explanatory notes and a note on the text.

Heart and Science's story of the struggle between strong-willed women will strike chords of sympathetic understanding with modern readersas will its vivisectionist theme, with it's clear parallels to the animal welfare/ animal rights debates of today.

Heart and Science Reviews

This is an important novel of historical and cultural as well as literary interest, and one which every Victorian scholar will find indispensable. Broadview Press has quickly become a leader in the field of producing the best editions of canonical and non-canonical nineteenth-century British literary texts, and Steve Farmer's Heart and Science is no exception." - Rick Simmons, University of South Carolina

"engaging...suspenseful" - The Washington Post

About Wilkie Collins

Steve Farmer, who received his doctorate from the University of Kansas and now teaches at Arizona State University, is a specialist in late Victorian fiction.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements
Introduction
A Note on the Text
Photographs of Collinss Manuscript
Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology
Preface

Heart and Science

Appendix A: Reviews of Heart and Science
Appendix B: The Vivisection Debate of the 1870s and 1880s
Appendix C: Frances Power Cobbes Account of the Ferrier Trial
Appendix D: Authors letters about Heart and Science
Appendix E: From A.C. Swinburnes Obituary Notice on Collins
Appendix F: The Timess Notice of Professor Helmholtzs Visit to London, 12 April 1881
Appendix G: Belgravia serial part divisions and corresponding page numbers in this edition
Appendix H: Robert Brownings Anti-vivisectionist poetry

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Additional information

GOR004299674
9781551111247
1551111241
Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time by Wilkie Collins
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Broadview Press Ltd
1997-01-30
384
N/A
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