Newby, Richard L. “Wilkie Collins's Man and
Wife: Kingsley's Athlete Scouted,” McNeese Review Vol. 26 (1979-80):
47-54.
Newby discusses Wilkie Collins's castigation in his 1869-70 Man
and Wife of Kingsley's vaunted athleticism. He provides numerous reasons
for Collins's dislike of Kingsley, ranging from the latter's status as
a most respectable Establishment figure to Kingsley's denigration of the
importance of the intellect. Collins viewed this anti-intellectualism as
being closely connected to Kingsley's athleticism especially as advocated
in the three novels Hereward the Wake, Two Years Ago, and Westward
Ho!. Man and Wife's propagandizing against athleticism
is Collins's retaliation.
Collins,
Wilkie;
Athleticism;
Hereward
the Wake, Two
Years Ago; Westward
Ho! |
