The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts

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2024
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4744-4164-3 (ISBN)

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Re-examines Charles Dickens’s under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings of the arts

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens’s rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens’s prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.

Juliet John is Vice President, Education, and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian studies. Among her books are Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001), Dickens and Mass Culture (2010), (ed.) Dickens and Modernity (2012) and (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016). Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation and Dickens’s ghost stories.

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Acknowledgements

Ahead of its Time: Dickens’s Prescient Vision of the Arts, Juliet John and Claire Wood

Part I: Novel Arts

1. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and the Novel, Paul Baines

2. The Novel and the Arts of Modern Vision, Francesca Orestano

3. Fanfiction, Maureen England

Part II: Theatre and Drama

4. Clowns, Jonathan Buckmaster

5. Melodrama, Carolyn Williams

6. Amateur Theatricals, Mary Isbell

7. Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations, Jim Davis

8. Dickens and Drama, Gillian Piggott

Part III: Performing Arts

9. Dance, Goldie Morgentaler

10. Music, Matthew Ingleby

11. Musical Theatre, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman

12. Rap Music, Melisa Klimaszewski

13. Puppets, David Ellison

Part IV: Visual Arts

14. Illustration, Julia Thomas

15. Caricature, Brian Maidment

16. Landscape, Malcolm Andrews

17. Photography, Daniel A. Novak

18. High Art, Jeremy Tambling

19. Architecture, Ben Moore

Part V: Screen

20. Silent Dickens, Joss Marsh

21. Twenty-First-Century Television, Christine Geraghty

22. Hollywood and British Cinema, Barry Langford

23. Global Cinema, Marty Gould

Part VI: National and International Dickens

24. Translations, Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee

25. Global Dickens, Michael Hollington

26. Education, Sarah Winter

27. Political Art and the Art of Politics, Dominic Rainsford

28. New Media and Cyberspace, Emma Curry

Part VII: Cultural Memory

29. Dickens and Shakespeare, Pete Orford

30. Dickensiana, Ryan D. Fong

31. Placing Dickens, Charlotte Mathieson

32. Commemoration, Claire Wood

Notes on Contributors

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2019
Reihe/Serie	Edinburgh Companions to Literature and the Humanities
Zusatzinfo	12 black and white illustrations, 5 colour illustrations, 1 black and white table
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	170 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4744-4164-5 / 1474441645
ISBN-13	978-1-4744-4164-3 / 9781474441643
Zustand	Neuware