Charles Dickens in Context

1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-0-521-88700-7
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 428 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 767 g

Reihe: Literature 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ledger, Sally

Furneaux, Holly

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I. Life and Afterlife: 1. The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan John Bowen
2. The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan John Bowen
3. Dickens's lives Michael Slater
4. Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations Anne Humpherys
5. Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press John Drew
6. The European context Michael Hollington
7. Major twentieth-century critical responses Toru Sasaki
8. Modern stage adaptations Tony Williams
9. Modern screen adaptations Toru Sasaki
10. The heritage industry Juliet John
11. Neo-Victorian Dickens Cora Kaplan
Part II. Social and Cultural Contexts: 12. Popular culture Paul Schlicke
13. The rise of celebrity culture Joss Marsh
14. The newspaper and periodical market John Drew
15. Authorship and the professional writer Florian Schweizer
16. The theatre Marty Gould
17. Melodrama Juliet John
18. The bildungsroman Florian Schweizer
19. Visual culture Kate Flint
20. The historical novel Ian Duncan
21. The illustrated novel Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
22. Christmas Sally Ledger
23. Childhood Holly Furneaux
24. Work Martin Danahay
25. Europe Ruth Livesey
26. The Victorians and America Ella Dzelzainis
27. Educating the Victorians Patrick Brantlinger
28. London Anne Humphereys
29. Politics Michael Sanders
30. Political economy Paul Young
31. The aristocracy Andrew Sanders
32. The middle classes Priti Joshi
33. Urban migration and mobility Josephine McDonagh
34. Financial markets and the banking system Francis O'Gorman
35. Empires and colonies Grace Moore
36. Race Priti Joshi
37. Crime Anne Schwan
38. The law Jan-Melissa Schramm
39. Religion Emma Mason
40. Science James Mussell
41. Transport Jonathan Grossman
42. Social hygiene, illness and disease Janis McLarren Caldwell
43. Domesticity Catherine Waters
44. Sexuality Holly Furneaux
45. Gender identities Catherine Waters
Further reading
Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Ledger, Sally
Sally Ledger was the Hildred Carlile Chair in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Furneaux, Holly
Holly Furneaux is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester.