Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality
Dickens as a Reader
Contributor(s)
Lennartz, Norbert (editor)
Koch, Dieter (editor)
Collection
Knowledge Unlatched (KU)Number
4983Language
EnglishAbstract
While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers – from Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes to Swift, Smollett and Bulwer-Lytton – Dickens’s novels reveal a multi-layered cosmos and supply their readers with richly woven nets of intertextuality.
Keywords
Literary Collections; European; English, Irish, Scottish, WelshDOI
10.14220/9783737002868ISBN
9783737002868Publication date and place
2014Grantor
Imprint
V&R unipressClassification
Anthologies: general