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Charles Dickens in context

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Part I : Life and after life. The life of Dickens 1 : before Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
The life of Dickens 2 : after Ellen Ternan / John Bowen
Dickens's lives / Michael Slater
Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations / Anne Humpherys
Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press / John Drew
The European context / Michael Hollington
Major twentieth-century critical responses / Toru Sasaki
Modern stage adaptations / Tony Williams
Modern screen adaptations / Toru Sasaki
The heritage industry / Juliet John
Neo-Victorian Dickens / Cora Kaplan
Part II : Social and cultural contexts. Popular culture / Paul Schlicke
The rise of celebrity culture / Joss Marsh
The newspaper and periodical market / John Drew
Authorship and the professional writer / Florian Schweizer
The theatre / Marty Gould
Melodrama / Juliet John
The Bildungsroman / Florian Schweizer
Visual culture / Kate Flint
The historical novel / Ian Duncan
The illustrated novel / Mary Elizabeth Leighton and Lisa Surridge
Christmas / Sally Ledger
Childhood / Holly Furneaux
Work / Martin Danahay
Europe / Ruth Livesey
The Victorians and America / Ella Dzelzainis
Educating the Victorians / Patrick Brantlinger
London / anne Humpherys
Politics / Michael Sanders
Political economy / Paul Young
The aristocracy / Andrew Sanders
The middle classes / Priti Joshi
Urban migration and mobility / Josephine McDonagh
Financial markets and the banking system / Francis O'Gorman
Empires and colonies / Grace Moore
Race / Priti Joshi
Crime / Anne Schwan
The law / Jan-Melissa Schramm
Religion / Emma Mason
Science / James Mussell
Transport / Jonathan H. Grossman
Illness, disease and social hygiene / Janis McLarren Caldwell
Domesticity / Catherine Waters
Sexuality / Holly Furneaux
Gender identities / Catherine Waters.

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