Charles Dickens in Context.

By: Ledger, SallyContributor(s): Furneaux, HollyMaterial type: TextTextSeries: Literature in ContextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2011Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (374 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781139079303Subject(s): Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation | English literature -- 19th century -- History and criticismGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: Charles Dickens in ContextDDC classification: 823.8 LOC classification: PR4588 .C3597 2011Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Notes on references -- Part I: Life and Afterlife -- 1 The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan -- 2 The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan -- 3 Dickens's lives -- 4 Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations -- 5 Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press -- 6 The European context -- 7 Major twentieth-century critical responses -- 8 Modern stage adaptations -- 9 Modern screen adaptations -- 10 The heritage industry -- 11 Neo-Victorian Dickens -- Part II: Social and Cultural Contexts -- 12 Popular culture -- 13 The rise of celebrity culture -- 14 The newspaper and periodical market -- 15 Authorship and the professional writer -- 16 The theatre -- 17 Melodrama -- 18 The Bildungsroman -- 19 Visual culture -- 20 The historical novel -- 21 The illustrated novel -- 22 Christmas -- 23 Childhood -- 24 Work -- 25 Europe -- 26 The Victorians and America -- 27 Educating the Victorians -- 28 London -- 29 Politics -- 30 Political economy -- 31 The aristocracy -- 32 The middle classes -- 33 Urban migration and mobility -- 34 Financial markets and the banking system -- 35 Empires and colonies -- 36 Race -- 37 Crime -- 38 The law -- 39 Religion -- 40 Science -- 41 Transport -- 42 Illness, disease and social hygiene -- 43 Domesticity -- 44 Sexuality -- 45 Gender identities -- Further reading -- Index.
Summary: This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens lived and worked.
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Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Notes on references -- Part I: Life and Afterlife -- 1 The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan -- 2 The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan -- 3 Dickens's lives -- 4 Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations -- 5 Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press -- 6 The European context -- 7 Major twentieth-century critical responses -- 8 Modern stage adaptations -- 9 Modern screen adaptations -- 10 The heritage industry -- 11 Neo-Victorian Dickens -- Part II: Social and Cultural Contexts -- 12 Popular culture -- 13 The rise of celebrity culture -- 14 The newspaper and periodical market -- 15 Authorship and the professional writer -- 16 The theatre -- 17 Melodrama -- 18 The Bildungsroman -- 19 Visual culture -- 20 The historical novel -- 21 The illustrated novel -- 22 Christmas -- 23 Childhood -- 24 Work -- 25 Europe -- 26 The Victorians and America -- 27 Educating the Victorians -- 28 London -- 29 Politics -- 30 Political economy -- 31 The aristocracy -- 32 The middle classes -- 33 Urban migration and mobility -- 34 Financial markets and the banking system -- 35 Empires and colonies -- 36 Race -- 37 Crime -- 38 The law -- 39 Religion -- 40 Science -- 41 Transport -- 42 Illness, disease and social hygiene -- 43 Domesticity -- 44 Sexuality -- 45 Gender identities -- Further reading -- Index.

This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens lived and worked.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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