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The Edinburgh companion to Charles Dickens and the arts / edited by Juliet John and Claire Wood.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities.
- Edinburgh companions to literature and the humanities
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.
- Dickens, Charles.
- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Influence.
- Arts--19th century.
- Arts.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (ix, 556 pages) : illustrations (black and white, and colour), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Companion to Charles Dickens and the arts
- Charles Dickens and the arts
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2024.
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- 1. Ahead of its Time: Dickens's Prescient Vision of the Arts
- Part I: Novel Arts
- 2. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and the Novel
- 3. The Novel and the Arts of Modern Vision
- 4. Fanfiction
- Part II: Theatre and Drama
- 5. Clowns
- 6. Melodrama
- 7. Amateur Theatricals
- 8. Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations
- 9. Dickens and Drama
- Part III: Performing Arts
- 10. Dance
- 11. Music
- 12. Musical Theatre
- 13. Rap Music
- 14. Puppets
- Part IV: Visual Arts
- 15. Illustration
- 16. Caricature
- 17. Landscape
- 18. Photography
- 19. High Art
- 20. Architecture
- Part V: Screen
- 21. Silent Dickens
- 22. Twenty-First Century Television
- 23. Hollywood and British Cinema
- 24. Global Cinema
- Part VI: National and International Dickens
- 25. Translations
- 26. Global Dickens
- 27. Education
- 28. Political Art and the Art of Politics
- 29. New Media and Cyberspace
- Part VII: Cultural Memory
- 30. Dickens and Shakespeare
- 31. Dickensiana
- 32. Placing Dickens
- 33. Commemoration.
- Notes:
- Includes index.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on March 18, 2026).
- ISBN:
- 1-4744-4165-3
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