Dickens and decadence /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Nineteenth-century and neo-Victorian cultures.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Dicken's decadence to a decadent Dickens / Giles Whitely and Jonathan Foster-- Part I : Dickens on decadence
- 'I almost wonder that YOU never turn your thoughts to Africa' : decadent commodity culture in Bleak House / Grace Moore
- Skimpole's peasant boy : Dickens, Tolstoy and decadence / Tom Hubbard
- Maladministration : Dickens, decadence and the higher civil service / Jonathan Foster
- 'The spike that intervenes' : the corruption of the east by the decadence of the west in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Pete Orford
- Part II : Dicken's decadence
- The theatre of cruelty of Our Mutal Friend / John Bowen
- 'But then I mean so much that I - that I don't mean' : sincerity and decadence in Our Mutal Friend / Tamsin Evernden
- Dickens : dining decadently / Claire Wood
- Anti-chronology : decadence in Carlyle, Dickens and Baidelaire / Jeremy Tambling
- Part III : Decedent Dickens
- Huysmans' Dickensian ark : decadence and the domestic / Giles Whiteley
- 'When to lie and how' : caricature and the decedent legacy of Charles Dickens / Kimberley J. Stern
- Charles Dickens, Arthur Machen and the aesthetic alchemy of things / Dennis Denisoff
- Three masters : Charles Dickens in the work of Stefan Zeig, Gustav Meyrink and Franz Kafka / James Dowthwaite
- Postscript : Dicken's wild style / Giles Whiteley.