Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds [Paperback]

The essays collected in this volume offer fresh readings of Dickens's travelogues and novels, often pointing to the many-sidedness of his personality. The 'uncommercial traveller' emerges as an ecumenical John Bull, chary of the alien but greedy of novelty, a man whose incursions on well-trodden or unfamiliar ground are always journeys into the uncanny. Besides dealing with the geography of the novelist's imagination, the book explores numerous 'new worlds' such as the inspiring world of Victorian science and Dickens's responses to it or the world of modern literary theory that shapes our own responses to his work.Foreword by John Jordan and Murray Baugarten Preface and Acknowledgements; Anny Sadrin PART 1: DICKENS AND EUROPE France Italy PART 2: DICKENS AND THE NEW WORLDS America The Colonies and Elsewhere PART III: DICKENS AND HIS WORLD Otherness The Uncanny Science PART IV: DICKENS AND OUR WORLD Index

I recommend Dickens, Europe, and the New Worlds for every lover of Dickens, indeed for every lover of literature. Dickens Quarterly

MALCOLM ANDREWS Professor of Victorian and Visual Studies, University of Kent at Canterbury MATTHIAS BAUER Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Westf??lische Wilhelms-Universit??t M??nster JAMES BUZARD Associate Professor of Literature and holds the class of 1956 Career Development Chair, MIT BRIAN CHEADLE Professor of English, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg K. J. FIELDING University of Edinburgh Emeritus Professor NEIL FORSYTH Professor of English, University of Oklahoma JENNIFER GRIBBLE Associate Professor of English, University of Sydney JOHN C. HAWLEY Associate Professor of English, Santa Clara University MICHAEL HOLLINGTON Professor of English, University of Toulon JOHN O. JORDAN Professor of English, Santa Cruz campus, University of California PATRICK J. MCCARTHY Emeritus Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara NANCY METZ Associate Professor of English, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State Ul�