"Et tu, Drood?": Rivalry, Identity, and the Undercover Personas of Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens in Dan Simmons' Drood (2009)

Abstract

Wilkie Collins—revitalised in Dan Simmons’s 2009 neo-Victorian novel Drood—positions narrative dexterity as the key component of power: “Never underestimate, Dear Reader, the resourcefulness of a novelist in an untenable situation…” (Simmons 478). Show more