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Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words

Catherine Waters
Commodity Culture in Dickens s Household Words Book PDF

Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351950411

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Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words by Catherine Waters Pdf

In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.

A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens: 6-Volume Set

Catherine Waters
A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens 6 Volume Set Book PDF

Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Cities and towns in literature
ISBN : 1409436276

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A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens: 6-Volume Set by Catherine Waters Pdf

Dickens looked at the city from several aspects and his relationship to cities was part of his modernity and fascination. This anthology of criticism shows how Dickens thought about, grasped, and conceptualized the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene.

Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870

Hazel Mackenzie,Ben Winyard
Charles Dickens and the Mid Victorian Press 1850 1870 Book PDF

Author : Hazel Mackenzie,Ben Winyard
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781908684202

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Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870 by Hazel Mackenzie,Ben Winyard Pdf

Critical analysis of the magazines established and edited by Charles Dickens.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens Book PDF

Author : Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191061110

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens by Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

The History of Reading, Volume 3

R. Crone,S. Towheed
The History of Reading Volume 3 Book PDF

Author : R. Crone,S. Towheed
Publisher : Springer
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-08-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230316737

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The History of Reading, Volume 3 by R. Crone,S. Towheed Pdf

We inhabit a textually super-saturated and increasingly literate world. This volume encourages readers to consider the diverse methodologies used by historians of reading globally, and indicates how future research might take up the challenge of recording and interpreting the practices of readers in an increasingly digitized society.

The Business of the Novel

Simon R Frost
The Business of the Novel Book PDF

Author : Simon R Frost
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317322306

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The Business of the Novel by Simon R Frost Pdf

This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch’s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.

Imagining Italy

Michael Hollington,John Jordan,Catherine Watts
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Author : Michael Hollington,John Jordan,Catherine Watts
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-08-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443824613

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Imagining Italy by Michael Hollington,John Jordan,Catherine Watts Pdf

This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England’s paramount novelist by studying his personal, political and literary relation to the foreign country he loved best of all of those he visited. Its focus is wider and its scope more ambitious and speculative. Without in any way leaving Dickens or his writings about Italy behind, the attempt here is to approach the Victorian fascination with that country from a broader, more theoretical perspective in which several current debates about travel writing are taken up and critically redeployed. The book is articulated in three parts. Part One concerns what the writings of Dickens and other Victorians can tell us about the history and theory of travel and travel writing, and Part Two, what they can tell us about particular Victorian writers themselves and their work. In Part Three the focus shifts in order to compare writing and visual representations of the experience of ‘abroad’ in general and Italy in particular, in an era when what can be thought of as modern visual culture is gradually taking shape. The book aims to show that the study of how Victorians imagined Italy can lead to a deeper understanding of some of the stereotypes that continue to inform contemporary tourism.

Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics

Simon R. Frost
Reading Wanting and Broken Economics Book PDF

Author : Simon R. Frost
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 445 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-05-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438483535

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Reading, Wanting, and Broken Economics by Simon R. Frost Pdf

Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Dickens and the Imagined Child Book PDF

Author : Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151203

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Dickens and the Imagined Child by Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters Pdf

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

Charles Dickens in Context

Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
Charles Dickens in Context Book PDF

Author : Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521887007

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Charles Dickens in Context by Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux Pdf

Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.

Global Dickens

Nirshan Perera
Global Dickens Book PDF

Author : Nirshan Perera
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 559 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351933520

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Global Dickens by Nirshan Perera Pdf

This volume of essays provides a selection of leading contemporary scholarship which situates Dickens in a global perspective. The articles address four main areas: Dickens's reception outside Britain and North America; his intertextual relations with and influence upon writers from different parts of the world; Dickens as traveller; and the presence throughout his fiction and journalism of subjects, such as race and empire, that extend beyond the national contexts in which his work is usually considered. Written by leading researchers from diverse countries and cultures, this is an indispensable reference work in the field of Dickens studies.

Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction

Ushashi Dasgupta
Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction Book PDF

Author : Ushashi Dasgupta
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-05-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192602954

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Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction by Ushashi Dasgupta Pdf

When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.

Collaborative Dickens

Melisa Klimaszewski
Collaborative Dickens Book PDF

Author : Melisa Klimaszewski
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821446737

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Collaborative Dickens by Melisa Klimaszewski Pdf

From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called “numbers”) of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success. Klimaszewski uncovers connections among and between the stories in each Christmas collection. She thus reveals ongoing conversations between the works of Dickens and his collaborators on topics important to the Victorians, including race, empire, supernatural hauntings, marriage, disability, and criminality. Stories from Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and understudied women writers such as Amelia B. Edwards and Adelaide Anne Procter interact provocatively with Dickens’s writing. By restoring links between stories from as many as nine different writers in a given year, Klimaszewski demonstrates that a respect for the Christmas numbers’ plural authorship and intertextuality results in a new view of the complexities of collaboration in the Victorian periodical press and a new appreciation for some of the most popular texts Dickens published.

Dickens and the Virtual City

Estelle Murail,Sara Thornton
Dickens and the Virtual City Book PDF

Author : Estelle Murail,Sara Thornton
Publisher : Springer
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319350868

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Dickens and the Virtual City by Estelle Murail,Sara Thornton Pdf

This book explores the aesthetic practices used by Dickens to make the space which we have come to know as the Dickensian City. It concentrates on three very precise techniques for the production of social space (counter-mapping, overlaying and troping). The chapters show the scapes and writings which influenced him and the way he transformed them, packaged them and passed them on for future use. The city is shown to be an imagined or virtual world but with a serious aim for a serious game: Dickens sets up a workshop for the simulation of real societies and cities. This urban building with is transferable to other literatures and medial forms. The book offers vital understanding of how writing and image work in particular ways to recreate and re-enchant society and the built environment. It will be of interest to scholars of literature, media, film, urban studies, politics and economics.

Dickens and Benjamin

Gillian Piggott
Dickens and Benjamin Book PDF

Author : Gillian Piggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151234

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Dickens and Benjamin by Gillian Piggott Pdf

Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.