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Dickens and Modernity

Dickens and Modernity

John, Juliet
Sickmann, Carrie
Rainsford, Dominic

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Series: Essays and Studies, Book 65

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ISBN10: 1843843269
ISBN13: 9781843843269
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: Oct 18 2012
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.70 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today.

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 out beyond the Victorianperiod. 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?

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