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Charles Dickens in context /
"Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a nove...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Gale virtual reference library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Part I : Life and after life. The life of Dickens 1 : before Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
- The life of Dickens 2 : after Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
- Dickens's lives / Michael Slater
- Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations / Anne Humpherys
- Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press / John Drew
- The European context / Michael Hollington
- Major twentieth-century critical responses / Toru Sasaki
- Modern stage adaptations / Tony Williams
- Modern screen adaptations / Toru Sasaki
- The heritage industry / Juliet John
- Neo-Victorian Dickens / Cora Kaplan
- Part II : Social and cultural contexts. Popular culture / Paul Schlicke
- The rise of celebrity culture / Joss Marsh
- The newspaper and periodical market / John Drew
- Authorship and the professional writer / Florian Schweizer
- The theatre / Marty Gould
- Melodrama / Juliet John
- The Bildungsroman / Florian Schweizer
- Visual culture / Kate Flint
- The historical novel / Ian Duncan
- The illustrated novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
- Christmas / Sally Ledger
- Childhood / Holly Furneaux
- Work / Martin Danahay
- Europe / Ruth Livesey
- The Victorians and America / Ella Dzelzainis
- Educating the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger
- London / Anne Humpherys
- Politics / Michael Sanders
- Political economy / Paul Young
- The aristocracy / Andrew Sanders
- The middle classes / Priti Joshi
- Urban migration and mobility / Josephine McDonagh
- Financial markets and the banking system / Francis O'Gorman
- Empires and colonies / Grace Moore
- Race / Priti Joshi
- Crime / Anne Schwan
- The law / Jan-Melissa Schramm
- Religion / Emma Mason
- Science / James Mussell
- Transport / Jonathan H. Grossman
- Illness, disease and social hygiene / Janis McLarren Caldwell
- Domesticity / Catherine Waters
- Sexuality / Holly Furneaux
- Gender identities / Catherine Waters.