Dickens on the Move
Travels and Transformations
Published on 27. March 2014
Book
Hardback
182 pages
978-3-631-64158-3 (ISBN)
Description
From today's perspective, Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This serves as a starting point for a bicentenary conference held by the English Department of Leipzig University in October 2012. The contributions united in this volume cover the three categories of geography, adaptation and reception of Dickens' works. Whether in a physical, imaginary or virtual sense, notions of space, time and change are fundamental to all of these fields. They inform both Dickens' narrative and his biography, in which acts of movement, exchange and transformation are perpetually performed. Articles discuss Dickens' travels in London and abroad, but also Chesterton's Dickens or his reception in Australia and New Zealand.
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Persons
Stefan Welz teaches English Literature and New English Literatures at Leipzig University and has translated literary works of various English and American authors.
Elmar Schenkel is Professor of English at Leipzig University. He is the director of the studium universale, a writer and a translator.
Content
Contents: Elmar Schenkel: Moving through the Night: Dickens's Walks in Nocturnal London - Stefan Lampadius: American Notes and Dickens' Projects of Reform - Maria Fleischhack: Multilayered Identity and Palimpsest in Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit - Stefan Welz: Dickens Goes South: A Gentleman's Perspective - Franziska Burstyn: Charles Dickens: A Disney Carol. Disney's Adaptations of Dickens' Oliver Twist and A Christmas Carol - Franziska E. Kohlt: Back to the Future: The Time Traveller's Traumatic Jetlag in A Christmas Carol - Luise Wolff: <<The world warped to his fancy>>: Charles Dickens in Richard Flanagan's Wanting - Anna Wille: <<Dickens did not write what the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted.>> G.K. Chesterton's Charles Dickens as character and critique - Marie-Luise Egbert: <<Please, sir, I want some more>>: Representations of Poverty on the Move - Dietmar Boehnke: The Lost Leipzig Letters: Charles Dickens, Bernhard Tauchnitz and the German Connection - Max Huebner: Charles Dickens and New Zealand: A Long-Distance Relationship with a Future.