Commodity Culture In Dickens S Household Words
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Commodity Culture In Dickens S Household Words
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Author : Catherine Waters
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
Commodity Culture In Dickens S Household Words written by Catherine Waters and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.
A Library Of Essays On Charles Dickens 6 Volume Set
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Author : Catherine Waters
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012
A Library Of Essays On Charles Dickens 6 Volume Set written by Catherine Waters and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Cities and towns in literature categories.
Dickens looked at the city from several aspects and his relationship to cities was part of his modernity and fascination. This anthology of criticism shows how Dickens thought about, grasped, and conceptualized the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene.
Charles Dickens And The Mid Victorian Press 1850 1870
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Author : Hazel Mackenzie
language : en
Publisher: Legend Press Ltd
Release Date : 2013
Charles Dickens And The Mid Victorian Press 1850 1870 written by Hazel Mackenzie and has been published by Legend Press Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with English literature categories.
Critical analysis of the magazines established and edited by Charles Dickens.
The Oxford Handbook Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Robert L. Patten
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2018-09-13
The Oxford Handbook Of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-13 with Literary Collections categories.
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
Dickens And Mass Culture
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Author : Juliet John
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 2010-11-25
Dickens And Mass Culture written by Juliet John and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-11-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dickens and Mass Culture shows that Dickens's unusual success in combining literary with wider popular appeal is directly related to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. It examines the ways in which his consciousness of a mass market for his work affected both his cultural vision and practice and his post-Victorian afterlives.
The Business Of The Novel
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Author : Simon R Frost
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-10-06
The Business Of The Novel written by Simon R Frost and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
This study shows how aesthetics and economics have been combined in a great work of literature. Frost examines the history of Middlemarch’s composition and publication within the context of Victorian demand, then goes on to consider the interpretation, reception and consumption of the book.
Imagining Italy
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Author : Michael Hollington
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2010-08-11
Imagining Italy written by Michael Hollington and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-08-11 with Literary Criticism categories.
This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England’s paramount novelist by studying his personal, political and literary relation to the foreign country he loved best of all of those he visited. Its focus is wider and its scope more ambitious and speculative. Without in any way leaving Dickens or his writings about Italy behind, the attempt here is to approach the Victorian fascination with that country from a broader, more theoretical perspective in which several current debates about travel writing are taken up and critically redeployed. The book is articulated in three parts. Part One concerns what the writings of Dickens and other Victorians can tell us about the history and theory of travel and travel writing, and Part Two, what they can tell us about particular Victorian writers themselves and their work. In Part Three the focus shifts in order to compare writing and visual representations of the experience of ‘abroad’ in general and Italy in particular, in an era when what can be thought of as modern visual culture is gradually taking shape. The book aims to show that the study of how Victorians imagined Italy can lead to a deeper understanding of some of the stereotypes that continue to inform contemporary tourism.
Reading Wanting And Broken Economics
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Author : Simon R. Frost
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2021-05-01
Reading Wanting And Broken Economics written by Simon R. Frost and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-05-01 with History categories.
Combining historical study, theorization, and experimental fiction, this book takes commodity culture and book retail around 1900 as the prime example of a market of symbolic goods. With the port of Southampton, England, as his case study, Simon R. Frost reveals how the city's bookshops, with their combinations of libraries, haberdashery, stationery, and books, sustained and were sustained by the dreams of ordinary readers, and how together they created the values powering this market. The goods in this market were symbolic and were not "consumed" but read. Their readings were created between other readers and texts, in happy disobedience to the neoliberal laws of the free market. Today such reader-created social markets comprise much of the world's branded economies, which is why Frost calls for a new understanding of both literary and market values.
Charles Dickens In Context
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Author : Sally Ledger
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2011-06-02
Charles Dickens In Context written by Sally Ledger and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Dickens And The Imagined Child
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Author : Peter Merchant
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-22
Dickens And The Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-22 with Literary Criticism categories.
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.