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Dickens and Modernity (Hardcover)
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Dickens and Modernity (Hardcover)
Series: Essays and Studies
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Total price: R1,924
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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
the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works
offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that
state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous
but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as
both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to
the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to
demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to
Dickens - Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs
commerce - are false, by exploring the diversity and multiplicity
of Dickens's textual and extra-textual lives. A specially
commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the
Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the
shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of
Dickens. Like the volume as a whole, it asks us toconsider the
nature of our connection with "this quintessentially Victorian
writer" and what it is about Dickens that still appeals to people
around the world. Professor Juliet John holds the Hildred Carlile
Chair of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London.
Contributors: Jay Clayton, Holly Furneaux, John Drew, Michaela
Mahlberg, Juliet John, Michael Hollington, Joss Marsh, Carrie
Sickmann, Kim Edwardes Keates, DominicRainsford, Florian Schweizer
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