Dickens and modernity

by John, Juliet

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Title Statements

Full title :Dickens and modernity / edited by Juliet John for the English Association.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2012

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):D.S. Brewer
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2012

Notes

Originally published: 2012.

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781782044413, 1782044418
oclc:on1064941109
Dewey Decimal:823.8

Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on the Contributors -- Dedication -- Introduction -- Works cited -- Screenography -- Notes -- 1: The Dickens Tape: Affect and Sound Reproduction in The Chimes -- Works cited -- Notes -- 2: Dickens, Sexuality and the Body -- or, Clock Loving: Master Humphrey's Queer Objects of Desire -- By way of an abstract -- Reading Dickensian sex -- Surface loving in Master Humphrey's Clock -- Authorship and the affective experience of commodity culture -- Curious bodies: mannequin drag and dummy love -- The erotics of things -- Queer Dickens -- Works cited -- Notes -- 3: Texts, Paratexts and 'E-texts': the Poetics of Communication in Dickens's journalism -- Works cited -- Notes -- 4: Corpus Stylistics -- Dickens, Text-Drivenness and the Fictional World -- Introduction -- Corpus linguistic methods and the analysis of literary texts -- Clusters as building blocks for fictional worlds -- Interpreting external features of characters -- Textual cues for the creation of characters -- Suspensions -- extending the range of text-driven patterns -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Notes -- 5: Things, Words and the Meaning…