TY  - GEN
T1  - Dickens and modernity
T2  - Essays and studies series.
A2  - John, Juliet, 1967-
LA  - English
PP  - Cambridge
PB  - D.S. Brewer
YR  - 2012
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn819136644
AB  - "The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the 'brand recognition' achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches beyond the Victorian period. Yet what is the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to Dickens - Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs commerce - are false, by exploring the diversity and multiplicity of Dickens's textual and extra-textual lives. A specially commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of Dickens. Like the volume as a whole, it asks us to consider the nature of our connection with 'this quintessentially Victorian writer' and what it is about Dickens that still appeals to people around the world."--Cover, p.4.
OP  - 208
CN  - PR4588
SN  - 9781782040262
SN  - 1782040269
SN  - 9781843843269
SN  - 1843843269
SN  - 9781283836609
SN  - 1283836602
KW  - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870 : Criticism and interpretation.
KW  - Dickens, Charles, : 1812-1870
KW  - Civilization, Modern, in literature.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - LITERARY COLLECTIONS : European : English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
KW  - Civilization, Modern, in literature
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -