Dickens on Screen

Book Overview

Television and movies, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. In addition to the millions of people already deploying the word Dickensian to describe their own and others' lives, many more who have never read Dickens are familiar with the term. They know of him because they have access to over a century of adaptations of his works for movies and television. Including an exhaustive filmography,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521001242
• ISBN13: 9780521001243
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 225 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"