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Dickens on Screen

Name: Dickens on Screen
Author: John Glavin
ISBN: 9780521001243

by John Glavin

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Overview

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.

Synopsis

Dickens on Screen is a broad ranging investigation of over a century of film adaptations of Dickens's works.

About the Author, John Glavin

John Glavin is Professor of English, and Director of the John Carroll Scholars Program Georgetown University in Washington DC. He is the author of After Dickens: Reading, Adaptation and Performance (Cambridge 1999).