Reading Dickens Differently

Sommario

List of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Leon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse
Part I Reconfiguring Dickens 13
1 Dickens's Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15
Leon Litvack
2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens's French Revolution 47
Lillian Nayder
3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61
David Paroissien
4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846-1850 75
Neil Davie
Part II Reincorporating Dickens 93
5 A Somatic Experience of Dickens's Fiction 95
Georges Letissier
6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113
Michael Hollington
7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125
Jeremy Tambling
8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149
Chris Louttit
Part III Resetting Dickens 165
9 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167
Pete Orford
10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London's Greatest Author 185
Gillian Piggott
11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin's Creed: Syndicate 207
Francesca Orestano
12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223
Claire Wood
Index 243

Info autore

LEON LITVACK is Professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project and has authored numerous publications on the historical and visual approaches to Dickens. NATHALIE VANFASSE is Professor of English at Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her monograph, La plume et la route: Charles Dickens, écrivain-voyageur was winner of the 2018 SELVA book prize.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: L Litvack, Leon Litvack, Leon (Queen''''s University Belfast Litvack, Leon B. Vanfasse Litvack, Leon Vanfasse Litvack, Nathalie Vanfasse
• Con la collaborazione di: Leon Litvack (Editore), Nathalie Vanfasse (Editore), Vanfasse Nathalie (Editore)
• Editore: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2019
• EAN: 9781119602224
• ISBN: 978-1-119-60222-4
• Pagine: 280
• Categorie: Saggistica > Enciclopedie, opere di consultazione > Dizionari di lingua straniera; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; English, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Reference, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers