Introduction : The real Wilkie Collins / Maria K. Bachman and Don Richard Cox
Fatal newness : basil, art, and the origins of sensation fiction / Tim Dolin and Lucy Dougan
Framed and hung : Collins and the economic beauty of the manly artist / Dennis Denisoff
"Bolder with her lover in the dark": Collins and disabled women's sexuality / Martha Stoddard Holmes
Chemical seductions : exoticism, toxicology, and the female poisoner in Armadale and The legacy of Cain / Piya Pal-Lapinski
Marian's moustache : bearded ladies, hermaphrodites, and intersexual collage in The woman in white / Richard Collins
The Crystal Palace, Imperialism, and the "Struggle for Existence": Victorian evolutionary discourse in Collins's The woman in white / Gabrielle Ceraldi
Fosco Lives! / A.D. Hutter
Outlandish English subjects in The moonstone / Timothy L. Carens
"Blue like me": Collins, poor Miss Finch, and the construction of racial identity / Lillian Nayder
Plain faces, weird cases : domesticating the law in Collins's The law and the lady and The trial of Madeleine Smith / Karin Jacobson
Collins, race, and slavery / Audrey Fisch
Yesterday's sensations : modes of publication and narrative form in Collins's late novels / Graham Law
Afterword : masterpiece theatre and Ezra Jennings's Hair : some reflections on where we've been and where we're going in Collins Studies / Tamar Heller.