Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals

The Resource Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals
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Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals
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authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals
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Melisa Klimaszewski
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eng
Summary
"From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called "numbers") of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success. Klimaszewski uncovers connections among and between the stories in each Christmas collection. She thus reveals ongoing conversations between the works of Dickens and his collaborators--including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and understudied women writers such as Adelaide Anne Procter--on topics important to the Victorians, including race, empire, supernatural hauntings, disability, and criminality. By restoring links between stories from as many as nine different writers in a given year, Klimaszewski demonstrates that a respect for the Christmas numbers' plural authorship and intertextuality results in a new view of the complexities of collaboration in the Victorian periodical press and a new appreciation for some of the most popular texts Dickens published"--
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LBSOR/DLC
Dewey number
823/.8
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
index present
LC call number
PR4586
LC item number
.K55 2019
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
Series in Victorian studies

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