Charles Dickens in context
By: [edited by] Sally Ledger, Holly Furneaux
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 428
ISBN-13: 9780521887007
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Description: "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"--

"Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. Th is book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. Th is volume off ers 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. Th rough forty-five digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the infl uence of his works, and the ways he has been read, adapted and reimagined from the nineteenth century to the present"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Preface; title: Part I. Life and Afterlife: 1. The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan John Bowen; title: 2. The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan John Bowen; title: 3. Dickens's lives, 1870-2007 Michael Slater; title: 4. Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations Anne Humphereys; title: 5. Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press John Drew; title: 6. The European context Michael Hollington; title: 7. Major twentieth-century critical responses Toru Sasaki; title: 8. Modern stage adaptations Tony Williams; title: 9. Modern screen adaptations Toru Sasaki; title: 10. The heritage industry Juliet John; title: 11. Neo-Victorian Dickens Cora Kaplan; title: Part II. Social and Cultural Contexts: 12. Victorian popular culture Paul Schlicke; title: 13. The rise of celebrity culture Joss Marsh; title: 14. The newspaper and periodical market John Drew; title: 15. Authorship and the professional writer Florian Schweizer; title: 16. The Victorian theatre Marty Gould; title: 17. Melodrama Juliet John; title: 18. The bildungsroman Florian Schweizer; title: 19. Dickens and visual culture Kate Flint; title: 20. The historical novel Ian Duncan; title: 21. The illustrated novel Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge; title: 22. Christmas Sally Ledger; title: 23. Childhood Holly Furneaux; title: 24. Work Martin Danahay; title: 25. Dickens and Europe Ruth Livesey; title: 26. The Victorians in America Ella Dzelzainis; title: 27. Educating the Victorians Patrick Brantlinger; title: 28. Victorian London Anne Humphereys; title: 29. Victorian politics Michael Sanders; title: 30. Political theory: political economy and its critics Paul Young; title: 31. The aristocracy Andrew Sanders; title: 32. The middle classes Pritti Joshi; title: 33. Urban migration and mobility Josephine McDonagh; title: 34. Financial markets and the banking system Francis O'Gorman; title: 35. Victorian empires and colonies Grace Moore; title: 36. The Victorians and race Pritti Joshi; title: 37. The Victorians and crime Anne Schwan; title: 38. The law Jan Melissa Schramm; title: 39. Victorian religion Emma Mason; title: 40. Science and the Victorians James Mussell; title: 41. Transport Jonathan Grossman; title: 42. Social hygiene, illness and disease Janice Caldwell; title: 43. Domesticity Catherine Waters; title: 44. Sexuality Holly Furneaux; title: 45. Gender identities Catherine Waters; title: Further reading; title: Index.