Charles Dickens in context
"Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present"-- Provided by publisher
Aufsatzsammlung
xxi, 405 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780521887007, 0521887003
701022115
Part I : Life and after life
The life of Dickens 1 : before Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
The life of Dickens 2 : after Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
Dickens's lives / Michael Slater
Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations / Anne Humpherys
Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press / John Drew
The European context / Michael Hollington
Major twentieth-century critical responses / Toru Sasaki
Modern stage adaptations / Tony Williams
Modern screen adaptations / Toru Sasaki
The heritage industry / Juliet John
Neo-Victorian Dickens / Cora Kaplan
Part II : Social and cultural contexts
Popular culture / Paul Schlicke
The rise of celebrity culture / Joss Marsh
The newspaper and periodical market / John Drew
Authorship and the professional writer / Florian Schweizer
The theatre / Marty Gould
Melodrama / Juliet John
The Bildungsroman / Florian Schweizer
Visual culture / Kate Flint
The historical novel / Ian Duncan
The illustrated novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
Christmas / Sally Ledger
Childhood / Holly Furneaux
Work / Martin Danahay
Europe / Ruth Livesey
The Victorians and America / Ella Dzelzainis
Educating the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger
London / Anne Humpherys
Politics / Michael Sanders
Political economy / Paul Young
The aristocracy / Andrew Sanders
The middle classes / Priti Joshi
Urban migration and mobility / Josephine McDonagh
Financial markets and the banking system / Francis O'Gorman
Empires and colonies / Grace Moore
Race / Priti Joshi
Crime / Anne Schwan
The law / Jan-Melissa Schramm
Religion / Emma Mason
Science / James Mussell
Transport / Jonathan H. Grossman
Illness, disease and social hygiene / Janis McLarren Caldwell
Domesticity / Catherine Waters
Sexuality / Holly Furneaux
Gender identities / Catherine Waters
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