The Curious World of Dickens

Clive Hurst, Violet Moller

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English

Bodleian Library
05 June 2012

Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 ; Social & cultural history

Published to mark the 200th anniversary of Dickens's birth, this book celebrates the greatest of English novelists by illustrating some of his abiding preoccupations. Prompted by quotations from the novels and other writings, each themed chapter explores contemporary images relating to salient topics of the Victorian age such as the public entertainments of London and the domestic pastimes of its inhabitants; the coming of the railways (which were to transform Victorian England in fiction and in fact); school life for children, and conditions in the workhouses and prisons which loom so large in many of the novels and which blighted Dickens's own childhood. Dickens was an incorrigible showman, and this book also explores his role as actor-manager of theatrical productions, as originator of the myriad stage adaptations of his books, and as supreme interpreter of them himself in the public readings which came to dominate his later years. Reproducing key extracts from the novels alongside a selection of the original covers as they appeared weekly and monthly in the bookshops, their crucial illustrations and all the paraphernalia of nineteenth-century advertising, is a unique approach which breathes life into the vibrant world of Dickens and his characters.

By: Clive Hurst, Violet Moller
Imprint: Bodleian Library
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 190mm, Width: 190mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 482g
ISBN: 9781851243846
ISBN 10: 1851243844
Pages: 112
Publication Date: 05 June 2012
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Clive Hurst is Head of Rare Books at the Bodleian Library, University of Oxford. Violet Moller is a freelance writer and researcher with a PhD in early modern libraries and knowledge.

Reviews for The Curious World of Dickens

"""Dickens had an uncanny way of writing everyday life into his novels, and Hurst and Moller's beautifully illustrated book . . . shows how integral Dickens's everyday world was to the creation of his texts. . . . An interesting and tactile look at the intersections between Dickens's literary world and the everyday world in which he lived.""-- ""Victorian Periodicals Review"" (1/27/2014 12:00:00 AM)"