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      • Edited by John Glavin, Georgetown University, Washington DC
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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2009
      November 2003
      ISBN:
      9780511484827
      9780521806527
      9780521001243
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511484827
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.49kg, 238 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.395kg, 238 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Literature, Film, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, Film, Media, Mass Communication
      Series:
      On Screen
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    Subjects:
    Literature, Film, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900, Film, Media, Mass Communication
    Series:
    On Screen
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    Television and film, not libraries or scholarship, have made Charles Dickens the most important unread novelist in English. It is not merely that millions of people feel comfortable deploying the word 'Dickensian' to describe their own and others' lives, but that many more people who have never read Dickens know what Dickensian means. They know about Dickens because they have access to over a century of adaptations for the big and small screen. Because Dickens has proven to be the most easily adapted of major novelists, he has become, somewhat ironically, one of the foremost novelists in the English canon. This is ironic because it was just this capacity to entertain that once confined him to the margins of the 'great tradition' in fiction. Dickens on Screen is an invaluable resource for students and scholars alike. It provides an exhaustive filmography and is well illustrated.

    Reviews

    "Raises a number of issues that are pertinent to the many debates that center around the translation of nineteenth-century fiction into film more generally..." Kate Flint, Studies in English Literature

    "For such a reader, this book offers a fresh and, at times, irreverent perspective on the complex interactions between film and literature...Glavin's collection lays a strong foundation upon which to build." Dickens Quarterly, Cara Lane, University of Washington

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