Johnathan Buckmaster

Dickens's Clowns

Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the Pantomime of Life

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.

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Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. April 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 160mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 502g
• ISBN-13: 9781474406956
• ISBN-10: 1474406955
• Artikelnr.: 54809715

Autorenporträt

Jonathan was an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Buckingham from 2016 to 2018, and a Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway from 2012 to 2015. He was awarded his doctorate for his thesis on Charles Dickens and the pantomime clown in February 2013. His other research interests include Dickens's afterlives in cinema and television, the influence of Dickens's work on Salman Rushdie, and Wilkie Collins. Outside of academia, he has been a Technical Author for nearly twenty years.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
List of Figures
List of Abbreviations
1. Introduction
2. Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning
3. Dickens at the Pantomime
4. The Memoirs as Nineteenth-Century Biography
5. George Cruikshank as co-biographer of the Memoirs
6. The Gluttonous Clown
7. The Slapstick Clown
8. The Clothed Clown
Bibliography
Index.