Dickens and Mass Culture shows that Dickens's unusual success in combining literary with wider popular appeal is directly related to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. It examines the ways in which his consciousness of amass market for his work affected both his cultural vision and practice and his post-Victorian afterlives. INDICE: List of Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Editions and Abbreviations; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE - DICKENS IN HIS DAY; 1: The Amusements of the People: Cultural Politics, Class and Commerce; 2: 'A body without a head': Culture Shock in Dickens's American Notes (1842); 3: 'Personal' Journalism: GettingDown into the Masses; 4: 'Coming Face to Face with Multitudes': The Public Readings; 5: Culture, Machines and Cultural Industry; PART TWO - AFTERLIVES; 6: Moving Pictures and Moving People: The Aesthetics of 'Mass Success'; 7: The Making of a Cultural Myth: Oliver Twist on Screen; 8: Heritage Dickens; or, Culture and the Commodity; Conclusion: Dickens World Past, Present and Future; BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ISBN: 978-0-19-925792-8
- Editorial: Oxford University
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 336
- Fecha Publicación: 25/11/2010
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés