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Zusatztext It’s hard to know where to begin with this extraordinary two-volume collection that charts the reception of Charles Dickens in Europe. Its innocent-sounding title covers a huge array of material, including not just translations and criticism of Dickens but also theater, film, and television adaptations. … This study makes the range of reference of much contemporary Dickens studies (and literary debate more generally) look alarmingly provincial in its timespan and shamelessly monoglot. … Much praise is due then to the general editor Michael Hollington who has recruited and marshalled a large team of national specialists who between them cover all of Europe outside of Great Britain and Ireland. The result of their labors in an indispensable reference book, which both records and analyzes – often for the first time – Dickens’s part in the fast-moving, multilingual print culture of modern Europe. … Hollington and his team have thus opened up a great quarry of material for future work, particularly in possible comparisons between and across national traditions. Every chapter, almost every page, opens up a number of such potential research projects. Informationen zum Autor Michael Hollington is Professor of English at the University of Toulouse-Le Mirail 2 (having retired from the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia in 2002). He is editor of Charles Dickens: Critical Assessments (Helm Information 1996). Klappentext The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular. Vorwort A major two-volume international research project providing the first comprehensive survey of the European reception of Charles Dickens. Zusammenfassung Offers a full historical survey of Charles Dickens' reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens' fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Inhaltsverzeichnis Volume I Series Editor's Preface: Elinor ShafferTimeline: Anthony Cummins and Michael HollingtonIntroduction: Michael HollingtonPart 1: The Reception of Dickens in Germany1 'Dickens in Germany: The Nineteenth Century': Antje Anderson2 'The Reception of Dickens in Germany, 1900-1945': Norbert Lennartz3 'Dickens’s Reception in Germany after 1945': Stefan Welz4 'German Illustrations': Joachim MöllerPart 2: The Reception of Dickens in Russia5 'Dickens in Russia: A Survey': Nina Diakonova6 'Dickens in Leo Tolstoy’s Universe': Galina Alekseeva7 'The Underground Passage: Dickens and Dostoevsky': Michael Hollington8 'Dickens in Twentieth-Century Russia': Emily FinerPart 3: The Reception of Dickens in France9 'A Historical Survey of French Criticism and Scholarship on Dickens': Nathalie Vanfasse10 'Dickens in France: Major Writers': Christine Huguet11 'Dickens’s Illustrations: France and Other Countries': Gilles SoubigouPart 4: The Reception of Dickens in Spain and Portugal12 'The Spanish Dickens: Under Cervantes’s Inevitable Shadow': Fernando Galván and...
