Notice bibliographique
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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Klimaszewski, Melisa
Titre(s) : Collaborative Dickens [Texte imprimé] : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals / Melisa Klimaszewski
Publication : Athens (Ohio) : Ohio university press, copyright 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (xii, 282 p.) ; 24 cm
Collection : Series in Victorian studies
Lien à la collection : Series in Victorian studies
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called "numbers") of
his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before
Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the
first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding
of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes
accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success.
Klimaszewski uncovers connections among and between the stories in each Christmas
collection. She thus reveals ongoing conversations between the works of Dickens and
his collaborators--including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and understudied women
writers such as Adelaide Anne Procter--on topics important to the Victorians, including
race, empire, supernatural hauntings, disability, and criminality. By restoring links
between stories from as many as nine different writers in a given year, Klimaszewski
demonstrates that a respect for the Christmas numbers' plural authorship and intertextuality
results in a new view of the complexities of collaboration in the Victorian periodical
press and a new appreciation for some of the most popular texts Dickens published"
Sujet(s) : Dickens, Charles (1812-1870)
Coauteurs
Contes de Noël -- Grande-Bretagne -- 19e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780821423653. - ISBN 0821423657 (rel.). - ISBN 9780821446737 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb45744492r
Notice n° :
FRBNF45744492
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Writing Christmas with "a bunch of people" (1850/51) ; Reading in circles : from numbers to rounds (1852/53) ; Orderly travels and generic developments (1854/55) ; Collaborative survival and voices abroad (1856/57) ; Moving houses and unsettling stories (1858/59) ; Disconnected bodies and troubled textuality (1860/62) ; Bundling children and binding legacies (1863/65) ; Coming to a stop (1866/67).
