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The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts
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The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens’s rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the Arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens’s prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the Arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the Arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
Edinburgh University Press
Title: The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts
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The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens’s rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the Arts overall.
This volume reassesses Dickens’s prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the Arts.
Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good.
In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the Arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
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