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Book SynopsisA collection of original essays and innovative reading strategiesprovides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field's leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategiesarchival, historical, textual, and digitalrepresenting new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games, and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with the author's life and work. This unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens' death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens' texts in digital form, and more. M
Trade Review“…this is a valuable acquisition for scholars wishing to rethink the boundaries of their own research methodologies and focuses. Dickens’s readers will appreciate the indication this collection gives that more precise history of the author and his increasingly interactive corpus are both waiting to be developed and explored in the twenty-first century.” - Dickens Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2020, pp. 192-195 (Review)
Table of ContentsList of Figures vii
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgements xiii
Abbreviations xv
Introduction 1
Leon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse
Part I Reconfiguring Dickens 13
1 Dickens’s Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15
Leon Litvack
2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens’s French Revolution 47
Lillian Nayder
3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61
David Paroissien
4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846–1850 75
Neil Davie
Part II Reincorporating Dickens 93
5 A Somatic Experience of Dickens’s Fiction 95
Georges Letissier
6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113
Michael Hollington
7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125
Jeremy Tambling
8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149
Chris Louttit
Part III Resetting Dickens 165
9 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167
Pete Orford
10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London’s Greatest Author 185
Gillian Piggott
11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate 207
Francesca Orestano
12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223
Claire Wood
Index 243
