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Heart and Science A Story of the Present Time Wilkie Collins edited by Steve Farmer

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title	:	Heart and Science : A Story of the Present Time Broadview Literary Texts
author	:	Collins, Wilkie.; Farmer, Steve, 1957-
publisher	:	Broadview Press
isbn10 | asin	:	1551111241
print isbn13	:	9781551111247
ebook isbn13	:	9780585256955
language	:	English
subject	English fiction.
publication date	:	1996
lcc	:	PR4494.H4 1996eb
ddc	:	823.8
subject	:	English fiction.

Page 4 1996 Steve Farmer All rights reserved. The use of any part of this publication reproduced, transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, or stored in a retrieval system, without prior written consent of the publisher or in the case of photocopying, a licence from cancopy (Canadian Copyright Licensing Agency) 6 Adelaide Street East, Suite 900, Toronto, Ontario M5C 1H6 is an infringement of the copyright law. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Collins, Wilkie, 18241889 Heart and science: a story of the present time (Broadview literary texts) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 1-55111-124-1 I. Farmer, Steve, 1957 . II. Title. III. Series. PR4494.H4 1996 823.8 C96-932118-X Broadview Press Post Office Box 1243, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9J 7H5 in the United States of America: 3576 California Road, Orchard Park, NY 14127 in the United Kingdom: B.R.A.D. Book Representation & Distribution Ltd., 244A, London Road, Hadleigh, Essex SS7 2DE Broadview Press gratefully acknowledges the support of the Canada Council, the Ontario Arts Council, and the Ministry of Canadian Heritage. Typesetting and assembly: True to Type Inc., Mississauga, Canada. PRINTED IN CANADA

Page 5 CONTENTS Acknowledgements 6 Introduction 7 A Note on the Text 28 Photographs of Collins's Manuscript 2930 Wilkie Collins: A Brief Chronology 31 Preface 37 Heart and Science 45 Appendix A: Reviews of Heart and Science 329 Appendix B: The Vivisection Debate of the 1870s and 1880s 339 Appendix C: Frances Power Cobbe's Account of the Ferrier Trial 368 Appendix D: Author's letters about Heart and Science 370 Appendix E: From A.C. Swinburne's Obituary Notice on Collins 374 Appendix F: The Times's Notice of Professor Helmholtz's Visit to London, 12 April 1881 376 Appendix G: Belgravia serial part divisions and corresponding page numbers in this edition 377 Appendix H: Robert Browning's Anti-vivisectionist poems 378 Select Bibliography 380

Page 6 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I am grateful to Ms. Lyn Farmer, Mr. Andrew Gasson, Mr. Barry Pike, Dr. Lesley Gordon, Dr. Jean Valk, Dr. Neil Nehring, Ms. Nicola Freshwater, Ms. Sharon Migotsky, Dr. Nicholas Salerno, Ms. Deb Person, and the staff at the Harry Ransom Research Library, University of Texas at Austin for their generous help during the preparation of this text.

Page 7 INTRODUCTION I Wilkie Collins and Heart and Science: A Story of the Present Time In the past decade Wilkie Collins's fiction has undergone a literary reassessment that has led some scholars to place him nearer the first tier of Victorian novelists than he has ever been. Two new biographies, a number of recent book-length critical studies, and several re-issues of novels long out of print have drawn much deserved attention to Collins, but for most casual readers of Victorian fiction, his success as a novelist is still measured primarily by the two novels he wrote relatively early in his career, The Woman in White (185960) and The Moonstone (1868). Because of the continuing popularity of these two novels, many readers still recognize in Collins only a figure instrumental in the development and growth of English detective, mystery, and sensation fiction, reading his novels because they have heard that The Woman in White is a top shelf mystery, or because they have been told by the likes of T.S. Eliot that The Moonstone is "the first and greatest of English detective novels."1 But with new attention being paid to his later fiction, new generations of readers are being introduced to Collins as a multi-faceted novelist whose many other works deserve individual recognition. Collins was himself initially touchy about the role his most popular novels would play in future analyses of his literary career. As early as 1869, twenty years and a dozen novels before his death, he lamented to a publisher: "[D]on't let us encourage the public... in its one everlasting cry to me: 'Ah! He may write what he pleases! He will never do anything again like

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