Popular Dickens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12411679 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lisa Rodensky (Wellesley College, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2009 |
| Volume | 37 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 583-607 |
| Publication date | 2009-06-11 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Victorian Literature and Culture (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1060-1503 • E-ISSN: 1470-1553 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s1060150309090354 |
| OpenAlex | W4245162813 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 16 |
Why was Charles Dickens so popular when he broke onto the scene in the late 1830s? That's still a real question to ask, but so is another, related question: what did the terms “popular” and “popularity” mean when applied to this novelist at this signal moment in the development of the novel? Writing in the National Magazine and Monthly Critic: A Journal of Philosophy, Science, Literature, Music, and the Drama – a short-lived monthly designed to publish serious work on various subjects – G. H. Lewes begins his 1837 review of Dickens's Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers , and Oliver Twist with a paragraph that worries over the nature of popularity
Art · Art history · Drama · Exposition (narrative · Literature · Paragraph · Political science · Popular music · Popularity · Publication · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies
People's history and socialist theory
Keywords (Routledge Revivals)
The Achievement of Literary Authority
Literature in the Marketplace
The Revolution in Popular Literature
Controlling the Riots
From Bentham to Carlyle
The Common Muse. An Anthology of Popular British Ballad Poetry XVth-XXth Century
Science and Salvation
| Highly cited | No |
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