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Reading Blackwater Park: gothicism, narrative, and ideology in 'The Woman in White.'

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From: Studies in the Novel
Date: 19930922
Author:Bernstein, Stephen

Wilkie Collins uses the Blackwater Park setting of his novel 'The Woman in White' to portray many of the narratives in the novel in an allegorical fashion and produce a gothic setting worthy of the events that transpire there. The architectural and geographical descriptions in the Blackwater Park section of the book provide a mini-narrative that encompasses the major themes of the novel and introduce Victorian themes such as class, gender and a mixing of genres. The section also reveals the ways in which Collins will use setting later in the novel to establish a multitude of narrative ...

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