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Title:

The grotesque in the fiction of Charles Dickens and other 19th-century European novelists / edited by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar and Max Vega-Ritter.

Publisher:

Cambridge Scholars Publishing,

Copyright Date:

2014

Description:

vii, 241 pages ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--History and criticism.
European fiction--19th century--History and criticism.
Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870
European fiction.
1800 - 1899
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Other Authors:

Hervouet-Farrar, Isabelle.
Vega-ritter, Max.

Contents:

pt. II pt. I Expressing 19th-century Reality: Reason vs. Unreason ch. One L'Histoire du roi de Boheme and Oliver Twist under Cruikshank's Patronage: The Dynamics of Text and Image at the Core of the Grotesque in the Novel of the 1830s / Michael Hollington -- ch. Two The Grotesque and the "Drama of the Body" in Notre-Dame de Paris and The Man who Laughs by Victor Hugo / Sylvie Jeanneret -- ch. Three From Smollett to Dickens: Roderick (Random), Barnaby (Rudge), and the Raven / Anne Rouhette -- ch. Four Of Giants and Grotesques: The Dickensian Grotesque and the Return from Italy / Michael Hollington -- pt. II Expressing 19th-century Reality: Reason vs. Unreason
ch. Nine The Construction of the Monstrous in Charles Dickens's Fiction from The Old Curiosity Shop to A Tale of Two Cities / Max Vega-Ritter ch. Six Figures of the Grotesque in The Snobs of England / The Book of Snobs by William Makepeace Thackeray / Jacqueline Fromonot -- ch. Seven From "Absolute Realism" to Nocturnal Grotesque in Gerard de Nerval's October Nights / Berangere Chaumont -- ch. Eight The Flaneur and the Grotesque Figures of the Metropolis in the Works of Charles Dickens and Charles Baudelaire / Isabel Vila-Cabanes -- ch. Nine The Construction of the Monstrous in Charles Dickens's Fiction from The Old Curiosity Shop to A Tale of Two Cities / Max Vega-Ritter
ch. Sixteen The Return of Dickens's Grotesques on Screen / Florence Bigo-Renault. pt. III Resisting and Negotiating Change -- ch. Eleven "Primitive Elements in a Modern Context": The Grotesque in The Mystery of Edwin Drood / Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar -- ch. Twelve Arts of Dismemberment, Anatomy, Articulation and the Grotesque Body in Our Mutual Friend / Victor Sage -- ch. Thirteen The Grotesque and Darwin's Theory in Charles Dickens's Great Expectations and Wilkie Collins's No Name / Delphine Cadwallader-Bourron -- ch. Fourteen The Female Grotesque in Dickens / Marianne Camus -- ch. Fifteen Zuleika Dobson by Max Beerbohm: The Grotesque of not such a Gross Text / Gilbert Pham-Thanh -- ch. Sixteen The Return of Dickens's Grotesques on Screen / Florence Bigo-Renault.

ISBN:

144386756X
9781443867566

OCLC:

(OCoLC)895730496

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)