Dickens and Modernity

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.

Sommario

Introduction - Juliet John
The Dickens Tape: Affect and Sound Reproduction in The Chimes - Jay Clayton
Dickens, Sexuality and the Body; or, Clock Loving: Master Humphrey's Queer Objects of Desire - Holly Furneaux
Texts, Paratexts, and 'E-texts': the Poetics of Communication in Dickens's Journalism - John Drew
Corpus Stylistics - Dickens, text-drivenness and the fictional world - Michaela Mahlberg
Things, Words and the Meanings of Art - Juliet John
Dickens and the Circus of Modernity - Michael Hollington
The Oliver! Phenomenon; Or, 'Please, Sir, We Want More and More!' - Joss Marsh and Carrie Sickmann
'Wow! She's a Lesbian. Got to be!': Re-Reading/Re-Viewing Dickens and Neo-Victorianism on the BBC - Kim Edwards Keates
Out of Place: David Copperfield's Irresolvable Geographies - Dominic Rainsford
Afterword: The 2012 Bicentenary - Florian Schweizer

Info autore

Juliet John

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Juliet John
• Con la collaborazione di: Juliet John (Editore)
• Editore: Boydell & Brewer
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 18.10.2012
• EAN: 9781843843269
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-326-9
• Pagine: 244
• Dimensioni: 145 mm x 221 mm x 20 mm
• Peso: 454 g
• Serie: Essays and Studies; Essays and Studies
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze sociali, tematiche generali