Dickens after Dickens /
edited by Emily Bell.
- Heslington, York, UK : White Rose University Press, 2020.
- 1 online resource
Includes bibliographical references and index.
'Once upon a time would not prove to be All-time or even a long time.' From Sanitary Reform to Cultural Memory: The Case of Jacob's Island / Nordic Dickens: Dickensian Resonances in the Work of Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson / Dickens and Faulkner: Saving Joe Christmas / 'Awaiting the death blow': Gendered Violence and Miss Havisham's Afterlives / The Unfinished Picture: The Mystery of Rosa Bud / Thing and Not the Thing': The Contemporary Dickensian Novel and Donna Tartt's 'The Goldfinch' (2013) / Little Nell in the Cyber Age / Dickensian Realism in 'The Wire' / Grand Aspirations: Putting Pip on the Stage. Adaptations and Absences / Fictional Dickenses / Waiting, for Dickens / Juliet John -- Introduction / Emily Bell -- Joanna Hofer-Robinson -- Kathy Rees -- Katie Bell -- Claire O'Callaghan -- Pete Orford -- 'The Rob Jacklosky -- Francesca Arnavas -- Laurena Tsudama -- Michael Eaton -- Emily Bell -- John Bowen. Foreword /
The 20th and 21st centuries have continued the quest, so aptly described by G.K. Chesterton in 1906, to 'find' Charles Dickens and recapture the characteristically Dickensian. From research attempting to classify and categorise the nature of his popularity to a century of film adaptations, Dickens's legacy encompasses an array of conventional and innovative forms. Dickens After Dickens includes chapters from rising and leading scholars in the field, offering creative and varied discussion of the continued and evolving influence of Dickens and the nature of his legacy across the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries. Its chapters show the surprising resonances that Dickens has had and continues to have, arguing that the author's impact can be seen in mainstream cultural phenomena such as HBO's TV series The Wire and Donna Tartt's novel The Goldfinch, as well as in diverse areas such as Norwegian literature, video games and neo-Victorian fiction. It discusses Dickens as a biographical figure, an intertextual moment, and a medium through which to explore contemporary concerns around gender and representation. The new research represented in this book brings together a range of methodologies, approaches and sources, offering an accessible and engaging re-evaluation that will be of interest to scholars of Dickens, Victorian fiction, adaptation, and cultural history, and to teachers, students, and general readers interested in the ways in which we continue to read and be influenced by the author's work. --