Charles Dickens in Context
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (US) |
| ISBN-13 | 9780511975493 |
| Open Library | OL15902048W |
| Total publications | 2 |
| Coverage period | 2011 - 2012 |
| Language | EN |
Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.
Charles Dickens in Context
Empires and colonies
Dickens's concern with Britain's overseas colonies is evident in his earliest writings, where it frequently becomes entangled with anxieties about the need for social reform nearer to home. Although in his lifetime he only visited two of Britain's colonial holdings – Canada in 1842 and Ireland in 1858, 1867 and 1869 – Dickens became much more engaged with imperial issues from the 1850s onwards. This growing concern with the Empire may be attribut…
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Empires and colonies
Dickens's concern with Britain's overseas colonies is evident in his earliest writings, where it frequently becomes entangled with anxieties about the need for social reform nearer to home. Although in his lifetime he only visited two of Britain's colonial holdings – Canada in 1842 and Ireland in 1858, 1867 and 1869 – Dickens became much more engaged with imperial issues from the 1850s onwards. This growing concern with the Empire may be attribut…
Charles Dickens in Context