Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts
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- ISBN 9781474441643
- Dimensions: 170 x 244mm
- Publication Date: 31 May 2024
- Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts 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. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
Juliet John is Vice President, Education, and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian studies. Among her books are Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001), Dickens and Mass Culture (2010), (ed.) Dickens and Modernity (2012) and (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016). Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation and Dickens’s ghost stories.
