The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts

Download or read book The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts written by Juliet John and published by EUP. This book was released on 2024 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [headline]Re-examines Charles Dickens's under-recognised importance to nineteenth-century and contemporary understandings of the arts 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. [editor biographies]Juliet John is Vice President, Education and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She is the author of Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001) and Dickens and Mass Culture (2010) and the editor of Dickens and Modernity (2012) and 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.