Dickens and Mass Culture

by Juliet John

Book Overview

That the idea of Dickens and the adjective 'Dickensian' continue to have a cultural resonance which extends beyond the book-buying public almost two centuries after Dickens's birth is testimony to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. Juliet John contends that Dickens's popularity is unique, different even from that of Shakespeare because, writing in 'the first age of mass culture', he was instinctively aware of the changed context of art,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199675104
• ISBN13: 9780199675104
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.4"