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What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key
point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination
of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical
transformation than at any other moment in history. With book
production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting
literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were
being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on
Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's
Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between
author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and
corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of
literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in
Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of
nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his
personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might
owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a
genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists,
librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection
examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal,
historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking
fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in
the present day.
What did reading mean to the Victorians? This question is the key
point of departure for Reading and the Victorians, an examination
of the era when reading underwent a swifter and more radical
transformation than at any other moment in history. With book
production handed over to the machines and mass education boosting
literacy to unprecedented levels, the norms of modern reading were
being established. Essays examine the impact of tallow candles on
Victorian reading, the reading practices encouraged by Mudie's
Select Library and feminist periodicals, the relationship between
author and reader as reflected in manuscript revisions and
corrections, the experience of reading women's diaries, models of
literacy in Our Mutual Friend, the implications of reading marks in
Victorian texts, how computer technology has assisted the study of
nineteenth-century reading practices, how Gladstone read his
personal library, and what contemporary non-academic readers might
owe to Victorian ideals of reading and community. Reading forms a
genuine meeting place for historians, literary scholars, theorists,
librarians, and historians of the book, and this diverse collection
examines nineteenth-century reading in all its personal,
historical, literary, and material contexts, while also asking
fundamental questions about how we read the Victorians' reading in
the present day.
Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" (c.1850) is one of the most
significant novels of the Victorian era and, having been adapted
for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural
consciousness of many nations.
Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens's novel
offers:
- extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history
and interpretations of the text, from publication to the
present
- annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews,
critical works and the text itself
- cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in
order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for further reading.
Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this volume is
essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of
"Oliver" "Twist "and seeking a way through the wealth of contextual
and critical material that surrounds Dickens's text.
Charles Dickens's "Oliver Twist" (c.1850) is one of the most
significant novels of the Victorian era and, having been adapted
for both stage and screen, retains its impact in the cultural
consciousness of many nations.
Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens's novel
offers:
- extensive introductory comment on the contexts, critical history
and interpretations of the text, from publication to the
present
- annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews,
critical works and the text itself
- cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in
order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism
- suggestions for further reading.
Part of the "Routledge Guides to Literature" series, this volume is
essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of
"Oliver" "Twist "and seeking a way through the wealth of contextual
and critical material that surrounds Dickens's text.
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Dickens and Modernity (Hardcover)
Juliet John; Contributions by Carrie Sickmann, Dominic Rainsford, Florian Schweizer, Holly Furneaux, …
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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
The first major study of Dickens's villains argues that they embody the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and the 'theatrical' aspects of Dickens's writing. Dickens's Villains locates the rationale for his theatrical characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'.
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