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Dickens and Modernity
Juliet John (Ed.)
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Description for Dickens and Modernity
Hardback.
Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches out beyond the Victorianperiod. Yet what is ... Read more
Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches out beyond the Victorianperiod. Yet what is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
244
Condition
New
Number of Pages
244
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843843269
SKU
V9781843843269
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99-50
Reviews for Dickens and Modernity
A fascinating glimpse of the way we read Dickens now.
DICKENS QUARTERLY, March 2014
DICKENS QUARTERLY, March 2014