Dickens's Clowns : : Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the Pantomime of Life / / Jonathan Buckmaster.
Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles DickensThis book reappraises Dickens’s Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist. Arguing that the Memoirs should be read as integral to Dickens’s wid...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2019 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022] ©2019 |
Year of Publication: | 2022 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVC
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 11 B/W illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Series Editor’s Preface
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Chapter 1 Introduction
- Part I: Dickens, Grimaldi and the Pantomime Clown
- Chapter 2 Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning
- Chapter 3 Dickens at the Pantomime
- Part II: Dickens and the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi
- Chapter 4 The Memoirs as Nineteenth-Century Biography
- Chapter 5 George Cruikshank as Co-Biographer of the Memoirs
- Part III: The Clown at Large
- Chapter 6 The Gluttonous Clown
- Chapter 7 The Slapstick Clown
- Chapter 8 The Clothed Clown
- Bibliography
- Index