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Dickens after Dickens /

The 20th and 21st centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G.K. Chesterton in 1906, to 'find' Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptations,...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Bell, Emily (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Heslington, York, UK : White Rose University Press, 2020.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Juliet John
  • Introduction / Emily Bell
  • 'Once upon a time would not prove to be All-time or even a long time.' From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island / Joanna Hofer-Robinson
  • Nordic Dickens: Dickensian Resonances in the Work of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson / Kathy Rees
  • Dickens and Faulkner: Saving Joe Christmas / Katie Bell
  • 'Awaiting the death blow': Gendered Violence and Miss Havisham's Afterlives / Claire O'Callaghan
  • The Unfinished Picture: The Mystery of Rosa Bud / Pete Orford
  • 'The Thing and Not the Thing': The Contemporary Dickensian Novel and Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' (2013) / Rob Jacklosky
  • Little Nell in the Cyber Age / Francesca Arnavas
  • Dickensian Realism in 'The Wire' / Laurena Tsudama
  • Grand Aspirations: Putting Pip on the Stage. Adaptations and Absences / Michael Eaton
  • Fictional Dickenses / Emily Bell
  • Waiting, for Dickens / John Bowen.