The Resource Dickens and mass culture, Juliet John
Dickens and mass culture, Juliet John
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- Summary
- That the idea of Dickens and the adjective 'Dickensian' continue to have a cultural resonance which extends beyond the book-buying public almost two centuries after Dickens's birth is testimony to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. Juliet John contends that Dickens's popularity is first age of mass culture', Dickens was instinctively aware of the changed context of art, or the need for popular art to find its place in an age of mechanical reproduction. Dickens and Mass Culture describes the ways in which Dickens envisioned and engineered his cultural pervasiveness, the media that enabled it, and the posthumous processes-technological, commercial, ideological, and emotional-that have perpetuated it. The first part examines Dickens's cultural vision and practice-his model of authorship, journalism, public readings, relations with America, and the machine. The second explores Dickens's screen and 'heritage' alternatives, aw well as the visitor attraction, 'Dickens World'. His longtime presence on the ten-pound note symbolizes the book's guiding interest in the relationship between the commercial, cultural, and political aspects of Dickens's populist vision and legacy. John argues that the aspects of his art that have underscored critical ambivalence about Dickens-his relations with money, mechanical reproduction, and the mass market in particular-have ultimately ensured both his iconic cultural status and his centrality to the academic canon. --Book Jacket
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- xi, 321 p.
- Contents
-
- The amusements of the people: cultural politics, class, commerce
- 'A body without a head': culture shock in Dickens's American notes (1842)
- 'Personal' journalism: getting down into the masses
- 'Coming face to face with multitudes': the public readings
- Culture, machines, and cultural industry
- Moving pictures and moving people: the aesthetics of 'mass success'
- The making of a cultural myth: Oliver Twist on screen
- Heritage Dickens; or, culture and the commodity
- Conclusion: Dickens worlds past, present, and yet to come
- Isbn
- 9780199257928
- Label
- Dickens and mass culture
- Title
- Dickens and mass culture
- Statement of responsibility
- Juliet John
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- That the idea of Dickens and the adjective 'Dickensian' continue to have a cultural resonance which extends beyond the book-buying public almost two centuries after Dickens's birth is testimony to his sense of himself as a mass cultural artist. Juliet John contends that Dickens's popularity is first age of mass culture', Dickens was instinctively aware of the changed context of art, or the need for popular art to find its place in an age of mechanical reproduction. Dickens and Mass Culture describes the ways in which Dickens envisioned and engineered his cultural pervasiveness, the media that enabled it, and the posthumous processes-technological, commercial, ideological, and emotional-that have perpetuated it. The first part examines Dickens's cultural vision and practice-his model of authorship, journalism, public readings, relations with America, and the machine. The second explores Dickens's screen and 'heritage' alternatives, aw well as the visitor attraction, 'Dickens World'. His longtime presence on the ten-pound note symbolizes the book's guiding interest in the relationship between the commercial, cultural, and political aspects of Dickens's populist vision and legacy. John argues that the aspects of his art that have underscored critical ambivalence about Dickens-his relations with money, mechanical reproduction, and the mass market in particular-have ultimately ensured both his iconic cultural status and his centrality to the academic canon. --Book Jacket
- Cataloging source
- UKM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1967-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- John, Juliet
- Illustrations
- illustrations
- Index
- index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Popular culture
- Popular culture
- Dickens, Charles
- Dickens, Charles
- Label
- Dickens and mass culture, Juliet John
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The amusements of the people: cultural politics, class, commerce -- 'A body without a head': culture shock in Dickens's American notes (1842) -- 'Personal' journalism: getting down into the masses -- 'Coming face to face with multitudes': the public readings -- Culture, machines, and cultural industry -- Moving pictures and moving people: the aesthetics of 'mass success' -- The making of a cultural myth: Oliver Twist on screen -- Heritage Dickens; or, culture and the commodity -- Conclusion: Dickens worlds past, present, and yet to come
- Control code
- ocn642283051
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 321 p.
- Isbn
- 9780199257928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
- Label
- Dickens and mass culture, Juliet John
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The amusements of the people: cultural politics, class, commerce -- 'A body without a head': culture shock in Dickens's American notes (1842) -- 'Personal' journalism: getting down into the masses -- 'Coming face to face with multitudes': the public readings -- Culture, machines, and cultural industry -- Moving pictures and moving people: the aesthetics of 'mass success' -- The making of a cultural myth: Oliver Twist on screen -- Heritage Dickens; or, culture and the commodity -- Conclusion: Dickens worlds past, present, and yet to come
- Control code
- ocn642283051
- Dimensions
- 23 cm.
- Extent
- xi, 321 p.
- Isbn
- 9780199257928
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other physical details
- ill.
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