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M. Leroy (dir.), Charles Dickens and Europe

M. Leroy (dir.), Charles Dickens and Europe

Publié le par Emilien Sermier (Source : Maxime Leroy)

Charles Dickens and Europe

Sous la direction de Maxime Leroy

Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013

190 p.

ISBN: 978-1-4438-4793-3, £39.99.

 

 

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Charles Dickens is one of the best-loved icons of British literature, but many of his novels stem from his connections with Europe. Does it make sense to read him as a European author as well? This book seeks to explore Dickens’ relationship to Europe, from his numerous travels—and subsequent travel writing—to the representation of continental locations in his novels, and to the reciprocal influence between his works and other European texts. Contributions focus on major fictional works like A Tale of Two Cities and Little Dorrit, but also on Dickens’ letters, travel writing and biography. The study begins by delineating the scope of Dickens’ European frame of reference, and goes on to deal with specific geographical and political issues in Italy, France and Switzerland. Finally, it places Dickens’ works within a wider European artistic context through comparisons with Hugo, Tolstoy, Daumier and Grandville.

 

Table des matières :

Editor’s Introduction


Part I. Maps and Boundaries
Chapter One: Dickens and Cosmopolitanism (Jeremy Tambling)
Chapter Two: Dickens in Europe—Maps and Reputations (Dominic Rainsford)
Chapter Three: Mapping Europe in Little Dorrit (Mario Martino)


Part II. French Follies
Chapter Four: Dickens’s Historical Fiction—The Importance of the French Revolution (Ingibjörg Ágústsdóttir)
Chapter Five: Liminality in A Tale of Two Cities—Dickens’ Revolutionary Literary Proposal (Nathalie Jaëck)
Chapter Six: French Abattoirs, Animal Welfare and the Anti-Smithfield Campaign in Dickens’ “A Monument of French Folly” (Ignacio Ramos Gay)


Part III. Across the Alps
Chapter Seven: The Need for Streets—Dickens in Switzerland (Neil Forsyth and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère)
Chapter Eight: The Swiss Alps and Character Framing in No Thoroughfare (Samia Ounoughi)
Chapter Nine: Back to Italy—Dickens’ Stereoscopic Views (Francesca Orestano)


Part IV. Dickens and His Contemporaries
Chapter Ten: Dickens the European—Re-reading the City in Our Mutual Friend and Les Misérables (Efraim Sicher)
Chapter Eleven: Leo Tolstoy Reading Charles Dickens (Galina Alekseeva)
Chapter Twelve: Caricature in Paris and London—Dickens, Daumier and Grandville (Alfie Bown)

 

Maxime Leroy is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Mulhouse, France. His research interests include Victorian fiction, authorial prefaces, and text/image studies.