Research Catalog

Title

Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals / Melisa Klimaszewski.

Author

Klimaszewski, Melisa

Publication

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

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Details

Description

xii, 282 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"From 1850 to 1867, Charles Dickens produced special issues (called "numbers") of his journals Household Words and All the Year Round, which were released shortly before Christmas each year. In Collaborative Dickens, Melisa Klimaszewski undertakes the first comprehensive study of these Christmas numbers. She argues for a revised understanding of Dickens as an editor who, rather than ceaselessly bullying his contributors, sometimes accommodated contrary views and depended upon multivocal narratives for his own success. Klimaszewski uncovers connections among and between the stories in each Christmas collection. She thus reveals ongoing conversations between the works of Dickens and his collaborators--including Wilkie Collins, Elizabeth Gaskell, and understudied women writers such as Adelaide Anne Procter--on topics important to the Victorians, including race, empire, supernatural hauntings, disability, and criminality. By restoring links between stories from as many as nine different writers in a given year, Klimaszewski demonstrates that a respect for the Christmas numbers' plural authorship and intertextuality results in a new view of the complexities of collaboration in the Victorian periodical press and a new appreciation for some of the most popular texts Dickens published"--

Series Statement

Series in Victorian studies

Uniform Title

Series in Victorian Studies.

Subject

• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 > Authorship > Collaboration
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Christmas stories, English > History and criticism
• Authorship > Collaboration
• Christmas stories, English

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Writing Christmas with "a bunch of people" (1850/51) -- Reading in circles : from numbers to rounds (1852/53) -- Orderly travels and generic developments (1854/55) -- Collaborative survival and voices abroad (1856/57) -- Moving houses and unsettling stories (1858/59) -- Disconnected bodies and troubled textuality (1860/62) -- Bundling children and binding legacies (1863/65) -- Coming to a stop (1866/67).

Call Number

JFE 19-11530

ISBN

• 9780821423653
• 0821423657
• 9780821446737 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2019004319

OCLC

1052872971

Author

Klimaszewski, Melisa, author.

Title

Collaborative Dickens : authorship and Victorian Christmas periodicals / Melisa Klimaszewski.

Publisher

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2019]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Series in Victorian studies

Series in Victorian Studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-11530