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Dickens and Mass Culture (Hardcover)
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Dickens and Mass Culture (Hardcover)
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That the idea of Dickens and the adjective 'Dickensian' continue to
have a cultural resonance which extends beyond the book-buying
public almost two centuries after Dickens's birth is testimony to
his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. Juliet John
contends that Dickens's popularity is unique, different even from
that of Shakespeare because, writing in 'the first age of mass
culture', he was instinctively aware of the changed context of art,
or of the need for popular art to find its place in an age of
mechanical reproduction. Dickens and Mass Culture describes the
ways in which Dickens envisioned and engineered his cultural
pervasiveness, the media that enabled it, and the posthumous
processes - technological, commercial, ideological, and emotional -
that have perpetuated it. The first part examines Dickens's
cultural vision and practice - his model of authorship, journalism,
public readings, relations with America, and the machine. The
second explores Dickens's screen and 'heritage' afterlives, as well
as the visitor attraction, 'Dickens World'. His longtime presence
on the ten-pound note symbolizes the book's guiding interest in the
relationship between the commercial, cultural, and political
aspects of Dickens's populist vision and legacy. John argues that
the aspects of his art that have underscored critical ambivalence
about Dickens - his relations with money, mechanical reproduction,
and the mass market in particular - have ultimately ensured both
his iconic cultural status and his centrality to the academic
canon.
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