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Informationen zum Autor Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London. Klappentext Dickens and Mass Culture shows that Dickens's unusual success in combining literary with wider popular appeal is directly related to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. It examines the ways in which his consciousness of a mass market for his work affected both his cultural vision and practice and his post-Victorian afterlives. Zusammenfassung Dickens and Mass Culture shows that Dickens's unusual success in combining literary with wider popular appeal is directly related to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. It examines the ways in which his consciousness of a mass market for his work affected both his cultural vision and practice and his post-Victorian afterlives. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editions and Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE - DICKENS IN HIS DAY; 1 The Amusements of the People: Cultural Politics! Class and Commerce; 2 'A body without a head': Culture Shock in Dickens's American Notes (1842); 3 'Personal' Journalism: Getting Down into the Masses; 4 'Coming Face to Face with Multitudes': The Public Readings; 5 Culture! Machines and Cultural Industry; PART TWO - AFTERLIVES; 6 Moving Pictures and Moving People: The Aesthetics of 'Mass Success'; 7 The Making of a Cultural Myth: Oliver Twist on Screen; 8 Heritage Dickens; or! Culture and the Commodity; Conclusion: Dickens World Past! Present and Future; BIBLIOGRAPHY
