Starring Charles Dickens: Multi-Media 'Boz' and the Culture of Celebrity

by Joss Marsh

As Joss Marsh observes in her stirring book on Dickens and cinema, Dickens was the first mass-mediated photographic celebrity of the modern era, more intimately "familiar" than any person in Britain besides the royal family. Suggesting Dickens's celebrity, as much as his work, contributed to the international phenomenon that is cinema's Dickens obsession, Marsh begins with J. J. E. Mayall's famous celebrity portraits to trace Dickens's impact on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1409404722
• ISBN13: 9781409404729
• Release Date: January 2026
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 280 Pages