Reading Dickens
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8892288 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Lydia Wevers (0000-0003-1284-3155, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Publication date | 2014-10-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Australian Literary Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0004-9697 • E-ISSN: 1837-6479 |
| Publisher | Australian Literary Studies (PUBLISHER • AU) |
| DOI | 10.20314/als.8d69e67663 |
| OpenAlex | W4238157565 |
| Language | EN |
Discusses communities of readers and the reception of Dickens in 19th century Australia and New Zealand. 'The very large colonial Dickens network, of references to a common corpus of characters, plots and ideas, illustrates both the social process by which reading and writing transfers across distance and manifests a reading community, and the social formation reading participates in: shared reading and shared culture. Mrs Gamp stands as the figure of warning, comedic perhaps, but nonetheless a flag for how the new colony is shaping itself
Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Flag (linear algebra · Linguistics · Literature · Media studies · Reading (process · Sociology · History · Literature Analysis and Criticism · Migration, Policy, and Dickens Studies · Philosophy
| Highly cited | No |
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