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29 - English Language and Literature
Royal Holloway, University of London
Dickens and Mass Culture
A paperback copy of the output published in 2013 is being submitted. The monograph was first published in hardback in 2010.
Dickens and Mass Culture is the outcome of a decade’s dedicated research. It extends the parameters of Dickens studies by examining new sources in uncatalogued archival collections, newspapers, screen history, museum data and visitor books, and tourist sites. It conceptualises Dickens’s relationship with mass culture from the 1830s to the present day in complex and original ways, ranging across a wide variety of disciplines. Its two-part structure – ‘Dickens in his Day’ and ‘Afterlives’ – and length (321pp.) reflect the fact that the book was conceived almost as two books in one and could have been published as such.
