{"product_id":"reading-dickens-differently-isbn-9781119602224","title":"Reading Dickens Differently","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Dickens Differently\u003c\/i\u003e features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual, and digital—representing new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games, and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with the author's life and work. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eThis unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens’ death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens’ texts in digital form, and more. Much of the evidence presented has never been seen before, such as Dickens' funeral fee account from Westminster Abbey, Dickens' death certificate, and a telegram from Dickens' son asking for urgent assistance for his dying father. Revising and refreshing the critical strategies of traditional Dickens studies, this important volume: \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures new research data on aspects of Dickens's life\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDiscusses a range of innovative reading strategies (including physiological novel theory) for clarifying aspects of Dickens' work\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eExamines the presence of Dickens in popular media and technology, such as \u003ci\u003eAssassin’s Creed \u003c\/i\u003evideo game and \u003ci\u003eA Christmas Carol \u003c\/i\u003eiPad app\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eFeatures rare illustrations, including documents and images relating to Dickens's death and funeral\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eEdited by world authorities on Dickens and his manuscripts\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthoritative, yet accessible,\u003ci\u003e Reading Dickens Differently\u003c\/i\u003e is a must-have book for Dickens specialists, instructors and students in Victorian fiction and Dickens courses, as well as general readers lookingfor innovative reading strategies of the author's work.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Figures vii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements xiii\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAbbreviations xv\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeon Litvack and Nathalie Vanfasse\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I Reconfiguring Dickens 13\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Dickens’s Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLeon Litvack\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens’s French Revolution 47\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLillian Nayder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Paroissien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846–1850 75\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeil Davie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II Reincorporating Dickens 93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 A Somatic Experience of Dickens’s Fiction 95\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGeorges Letissier\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMichael Hollington\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeremy Tambling\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChris Louttit\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III Resetting Dickens 165\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePete Orford\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London’s Greatest Author 185\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eGillian Piggott\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate 207\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrancesca Orestano\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eClaire Wood\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 243\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“…this is a valuable acquisition for scholars wishing to rethink the boundaries of their own research methodologies and focuses. Dickens’s readers will appreciate the indication this collection gives that more precise history of the author and his increasingly interactive corpus are both waiting to be developed and explored in the twenty-first century.” - \u003cb\u003eDickens Quarterly\u003c\/b\u003e, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2020, pp. 192-195 (Review)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLEON LITVACK\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is Principal Editor of the \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens Letters Project\u003c\/i\u003e and has authored numerous publications on the historical and visual approaches to Dickens. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNATHALIE VANFASSE\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of English at Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her monograph, \u003ci\u003eLa plume et la route:\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eCharles Dickens, écrivain-voyageur\u003c\/i\u003e was winner of the 2018 SELVA book prize.   \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS AND INNOVATIVE READING STRATEGIES\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eReading Dickens Differently\u003c\/i\u003e features contributions from many of the field's leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual and digital—represent new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. 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