Dickens and Popular Entertainment
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- Published by: Taylor & Francis
- eBook Publish Date: October 03, 2007
- Print ISBN: 0044451806
- Filesize: 4.55 MB
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Dickens and Popular Entertainment is the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dicken''s life and work. Ranging widely through showmen''s memoirs, playbills, advertisements, journals, drawings and imaginative literature, Paul Schlicke explores the ways in which Dickens channelled his love of entertainment into incomparable artistry. Circus, fair, theatre and street performances provided the novelist with subject matter and with the sources of imaginative stimulus essential to his art. Splendidly illustrated with nineteenth-century engravings, many reprinted here for the first time, this study offers a challenging reassessment of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times. It shows the important place entertainment held in Dicken''s journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life.
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Imprint
Taylor & Francis
Filesize
4.55 MB
Number of Pages
304
eBook ISBN
0203206762
