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Charles Dickens in Context

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. Dickenss professional life encompassed work as 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 Dickenss age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through forty-five digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickenss engagement with his time, the influence of his works, and the ways he has been read, adapted and reimagined from the nineteenth century to the present.

Sally Ledger was the Hildred Carlile Chair in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Holly Furneaux is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester.

Charles Dickens in Context

Edited by

Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux

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Cambridge University Press 2011

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 2011

Printed in the United Kingdom at the University Press, Cambridge

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Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

Charles Dickens in context / [edited by] Sally Ledger, Holly Furneaux.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-521-88700-7 (hardback)

1. Dickens, Charles, 18121870Criticism and interpretation. I. Ledger, Sally.

II. Furneaux, Holly. III. Title.

PR4588.c3597 2011

823.8dc22

2011006726

ISBN 978-0-521-88700-7 Hardback

Cambridge University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party internet websites referred to in this publication, and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate.

for Sally Ledger

in loving memory

Illustrations

Unless otherwise specified, images are by generous courtesy of the Charles Dickens Museum, London.

Contributors

John Bowen

is Professor of Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of York. His publications include Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit (2000), the Penguin edition of Dickenss Barnaby Rudge (2003) and, co-edited with Professor Robert L. Patten, Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies (2005). He served as president of the Dickens Society in 2008, is a member of the faculty of the University of California Dickens Project, and a fellow of the English Association.

Patrick Brantlinger

is James Rudy Professor of English (Emeritus) at Indiana University. His most recent book is Victorian Literature and Postcolonial Studies (2010).

Janis Mclarren Caldwell

is a former physician and now an Associate Professor of English Literature at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Literature and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Britain: From Mary Shelley to George Eliot (2004).

Martin Danahay

is Professor of English at Brock University in Canada. He is the author of A Community of One: Masculine Autobiography and Autonomy in Nineteenth-Century Britain (1993) and Gender at Work in Victorian Culture: Literature, Art and Masculinity (2005). He has published numerous articles on Victorian culture and edited the collection Animal Dreams: Representations of Animals in Victorian Literature and Culture (2007) with Deborah Denenholz Morse.

John Drew

is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Buckingham. He has written widely on Dickens and Victorian journalism, including the book Dickens the Journalist (2003), and is currently editing an online edition of Household Words and All the Year Round under Dickenss editorship (www.djo.org.uk forthcoming 2012).

Ian Duncan

is Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Scotts Shadow: The Novel in Romantic Edinburgh (2007) and Modern Romance and Transformations of the Novel: The Gothic, Scott, Dickens (1992), a co-editor of Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism (2004), and the editor, most recently, of James Hoggs Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (2010).

Ella Dzelzainis

is British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Lecturer in Nineteenth-Century Literature at the University of Newcastle. She works primarily on the relation between feminism, political economy and literature in the nineteenth century. She is co-editor (with Cora Kaplan) of Harriet Martineau: Authorship, Society and Empire (2010) and (with Ruth Livesey) of The American Experiment and the Idea of Democracy, 17761914 (2011).

Kate Flint

is Professor of English at the University of Southern California. She is author of The Woman Reader (1993), The Victorians and the Visual Imagination (2000) and The Transatlantic Indian 17761930 (2008), and is currently writing Flash! Photography, Writing, and Surprising Illumination .

Holly Furneaux

is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She has published widely on Dickens and his contemporaries and is author of Queer Dickens: Erotics, Families, Masculinities (2009).

Marty Gould

is Assistant Professor of English at the University of South Florida. In addition to articles on the Dickens World theme park, he has published on representations of empire on the Victorian stage. He is the author of Nineteenth-Century Theatre and the Imperial Encounter (2011).

Jonathan H. Grossman

is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles. His current project is The Transportive Work of Fiction in the Time of Charles Dickens.

Michael Hollington

is a retired professor of English, formerly at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and the Universit de Toulouse, Le Mirail, France. He has written books on Dickens, Mansfield and Grass and edited Charles Dickens: Critical Assessments (1995).

Anne Humpherys

is a professor of English at Lehman College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. She has published on Henry Mayhew, G. W. M. Reynolds, Tennyson, Dickens and on several aspects of the nineteenth-century periodical press. She is currently working on divorce and the nineteenth-century novel, and the penny libraries of popular publisher John Dicks.

Juliet John

is Chair in Victorian Literature at the University of Liverpool. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian culture and is the author of Dickenss Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001) and Dickens and Mass Culture (2010).

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