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Dickens, Europe and the new worlds / edited by Anny Sadrin ; foreword by John O. Jordan and Murray Baumgarten.
Van Pelt Library PR4592.E85 D53 1999
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning--Europe--Congresses.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
- English fiction--American influences.
- English fiction.
- English fiction--European influences.
- Europe.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning--America--Congresses.
- America.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning--Foreign countries--Congresses.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Knowledge and learning--Congresses.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Influence--Congresses.
- English fiction--European influences--Congresses.
- English fiction--American influences--Congresses.
- America--In literature--Congresses.
- Europe--In literature--Congresses.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Travel in literature--Congresses.
- Local Subjects:
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation--Congresses.
- Travel in literature--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Conference papers and proceedings.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 307 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1999.
- Summary:
- Written by distinguished specialists of Dickens and the Victorian age, the essays collected in this volume cover a wide range of approaches to the complex work of a complex man. The volume focuses on Dickens as international traveler and cultural influence, drawing our attention to contemporary rethinking of a great Victorian who was also a great precursor of Modernity.
- Contents:
- Part I Dickens and Europe
- France
- 1. Crossing the Channel with Dickens / Dominic Rainsford 3
- 2. Why D.I.J.O.N.? Crossing Forbidden Boundaries in Dombey and Son / Anny Sadrin 14
- 3. Dickens, Household Words and the Paris Boulevards / Michael Hollington 22
- Italy
- 4. Spectacle and Speculation: the Victorian Economy of Vision in Little Dorrit / Ronald R. Thomas 34
- 5. Pictures from Italy: Dickens, Rome and the Eternal City of the Mind / Lawrence Frank 47
- Part II Dickens and the New Worlds
- America
- 6. Truth in American Notes / Patrick McCarthy 67
- 7. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit: Or, America Revised / Nancy Metz 77
- The Colonies and Elsewhere
- 8. Borrioboola-Gha: Dickens, John Jarndyce and the Heart of Darkness / Jennifer Gribble 90
- 9. Despatched to the Periphery: the Changing Play of Centre and Periphery in Dickens's Work / Brian Cheadle 100
- 10. 'Anywhere's Nowhere': Dickens on the Move / James Buzard 113
- Part III Dickens and His World
- Otherness
- 11. Little Dorrit, Pictures from Italy and John Bull / Tore Rem 131
- 12. Charles Dickens and his Performing Selves / Malcolm Andrews 146
- 13. Foreign Languages and Original Understanding in Little Dorrit / Matthias Bauer 155
- 14. Foreign Bodies: Acceptance and Rejection of the Alien in the Dickensian Text / Sara Thornton 169
- The Uncanny
- 15. 'A Far Better Rest I Go To': Dickens and the Undiscovered Country / John C. Hawley 181
- 16. The 'Other World' of 'A Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices' / Paul Schlicke 194
- Science
- 17. Dickens's Science, Evolution and 'The Death of the Sun' / K. J. Fielding, Shu Fang Lai 200
- 18. 'Negative Homogeneity': Our Mutual Friend, Richard Owen and the 'New Worlds' of Victorian Biology / Victor Sage 212
- Part IV Dickens and Our World
- 19. Translating Dickens into French / Sylvere Monod 229
- 20. Dickens and Diaspora / John O. Jordan 239
- 21. No, but I Saw the Film: David Lean Remakes Oliver Twist / Neil Forsyth 251
- 22. From Agnes Fleming to Helena Landless: Dickens, Women and (Post-) Colonialism / Patricia Plummer 267
- 23. 'Doveyed Covetfilles': How Joyce Used Dickens to Put a Lot of the Old World into the New / Robert M. Polhemus 283
- 24. Modernist Readings Mediated: Dickens and the New Worlds of Later Generations / Roger D. Sell 294.
- Notes:
- Papers originally presented at a conference held in Dijon, France in June 1996.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0333722485
- 0312216467
- OCLC:
- 39281980
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