Texts, contexts and intertextuality : : Dickens as a reader / / Norbert Lennartz, Dieter Koch (eds.).

• Superior document: Close Reading Schriften zur britischen Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft ; Band 1.
• TeilnehmendeR: Lennartz, Norbert,; Koch, Dieter,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : V & R unipress,, 2014.; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English; German
• Series: Close reading.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (294 pages)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Galt Charles Dickens lange Zeit als der Verfasser umfangreicher seichter und sentimentaler Kinderliteratur, als Produzent leicht konsumierbarer Massenware, so zeigt diese Aufsatzsammlung, dass Dickens nicht nur Leser hochwertiger Literatur war, sondern dass er seine Werke im Kontext sowohl der großen Weltliteratur als auch der zeitgenössischen wissenschaftlichen und wirtschaftlichen Debatten wahrgenommen sehen wollte.Von Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes, über Swift, Smollett bis hin zu Bulwer-Lytton reicht die Riege der Autoren, die Dickens im Kosmos seiner Romane verarbeitete und zu einem inter

Table of Contents

Title Page; Copyright; Table of Contents; 1. Introduction; Body; Norbert Lennartz (Vechta): 1.1 Introduction: Dickens as a Voracious Reader; 2. Dickens and the Literary Tradition; Matthias Bauer (Tübingen): 2.1 Dickens and Sir Philip Sidney: Desire, Ethics, and Poetics; 1. Astrophil and Pip; 2. The Sidney Myth; 3. A Poetological Point of Reference; Bibliography; Michael Hollington (Canterbury): 2.2 Dickens and the Commedia dell'arte; 1. Introductory; 2. Italy; 3. The Idea of the Mask; 4. Il Capitano; 5. Pantalone; Appendix; Bibliography

Wolfgang G. Müller (Jena): 2.3 Mr. Pickwick - a New Quixote? Charles Dickens's First Novel in the Tradition of Cervantes1. A Note on Cervantes and the Cervantes Tradition; 2. Elements in Don Quixote Contributing to Creating a Tradition; 3. The Quixotic Tradition before Dickens; 4. Quixotic and not Picaresque; 5. From Real to Metaphorical Armour; 6. Master and Servant; 7. Proverb and Exemplum; 8. Dickens's Reinvention of the Quixotic Novel as a Comic Work; Bibliography; Paul Vita (St. Louis/Madrid): 2.4 Conversation and the Comic Novel: Don Quixote and The Pickwick Papers; Bibliography

Isabel Vila Cabanes (Jena): 2.5 Reading the Grotesque in the Works of Charles Dickens and Jonathan Swift1. Conceptualising the Grotesque; 2. The Grotesque in Dickens's Works; 3. Dickens as an Avid Reader of Swift; 4. References to Swift in Dickens's Grotesque Passages; 5. Conclusion; Bibliography; Dieter Koch (Vechta): 2.6 Dickens and the Tradition of the British Picaresque: Smollett, Dickens and Chance; Bibliography; Georges Letissier (Nantes): 2.7 Reading Postmodernity into Our Mutual Friend: the World as Text and the Desecration and Redemption of Reading

1. The Experience of Reading Demeaned2. The World as Text - the Vacuity of the Real; 3. The Redemption of Reading; Bibliography; 3. Dickens as a Reader of Contemporary Literature; Rolf Lessenich (Bonn): 3.1 Edward Bulwer-Lytton as a Reader of Charles Dickens; Bibliography; Angelika Zirker (Tübingen): 3.2 `To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt': Charles Dickens and the Ambiguous Ghost Story; 1. The Ambiguity of the Title; 2. The Ambiguity of the Story; 3. Why Ambiguity? Or: Against `Weakening the Terror'; Bibliography

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