02506nam 22005053u 450 991081838550332120240405062415.0(CKB)1000000000365454(EBL)179737(OCoLC)275202701(SSID)ssj0000293910(PQKBManifestationID)12113966(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000293910(PQKBWorkID)10302805(PQKB)10745411(MiAaPQ)EBC179737(EXLCZ)99100000000036545420130418d2003|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrDickens and Popular Entertainment[electronic resource]1st ed.Hoboken Taylor and Francis20031 online resource (303 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-04-800038-8 Book Cover; Title; Contents; Preface page; List of Illustrations; References and Abbreviations; Introduction: Dickens and the Changing Patterns of Popular Entertainment; Popular Entertainment and Childhood; Nicholas Nickleby The Novel as Popular Entertainment; The Old Curiosity Shop The Assessment of Popular Entertainment; Hard Times The Necessity of Popular Entertainment; Popular Entertainment in Dickens's Journalism; Dickens's Public Readings: the Abiding Commitment; Notes; Select Bibliography; IndexDickens and Popular Entertainment is the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dicken's life and work. Ranging widely through showmen's memoirs, playbills, advertisements, journals, drawings and imaginative literature, Paul Schlicke explores the ways in which Dickens channelled his love of entertainment into incomparable artistry. Circus, fair, theatre and street performances provided the novelist with subject matter and with the sources of imaginative stimulus essential to his art. Splendidly illustrated with nineteenth-century engravings, many reprinted here for the first timDickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Performing arts in literatureDickens, Charles,--1812-1870--.Performing arts in literature.823.8823/.8Schlicke Paul155698AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910818385503321Dickens and popular entertainment469401UNINA