Dickens after Dickens /
The 20th and 21st centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G. K. Chesterton in 1906, to {u2018}find{u2019} Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptatio...
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Heslington, York, UK :
White Rose University Press,
2020.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Juliet John
- Introduction / Emily Bell
- {u2018}Once upon a time would not prove to be All-time or even a long time.{u2019} From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob{u2019}s Island / Joanna Hofer-Robinson
- Nordic Dickens: Dickensian Resonances in the Work of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson / Kathy Rees
- Dickens and Faulkner: Saving Joe Christmas / Katie Bell
- {u2018}Awaiting the death blow{u2019}: Gendered Violence and Miss Havisham{u2019}s Afterlives / Claire O{u2019}Callaghan
- The Unfinished Picture: The Mystery of Rosa Bud / Pete Orford
- {u2018}The Thing and Not the Thing{u2019}: The Contemporary Dickensian Novel and Donna Tartt{u2019}s {u2018}The Goldfinch{u2019} (2013) / Rob Jacklosky
- Little Nell in the Cyber Age / Francesca Arnavas
- Dickensian Realism in {u2018}The Wire{u2019} / Laurena Tsudama
- Grand Aspirations: Putting Pip on the Stage. Adaptations and Absences / Michael Eaton
- Fictional Dickenses / Emily Bell
- Waiting, for Dickens / John Bowen.