Juliet John is Vice President, Education, and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian studies. Among her books are Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001), Dickens and Mass Culture (2010), (ed.) Dickens and Modernity (2012) and (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016). Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation and Dickens’s ghost stories.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAhead of its Time: Dickens’s Prescient Vision of the Arts, Juliet John and Claire WoodPart I: Novel Arts1. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and the Novel, Paul Baines2. The Novel and the Arts of Modern Vision, Francesca Orestano3. Fanfiction, Maureen EnglandPart II: Theatre and Drama4. Clowns, Jonathan Buckmaster5. Melodrama, Carolyn Williams6. Amateur Theatricals, Mary Isbell7. Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations, Jim Davis8. Dickens and Drama, Gillian PiggottPart III: Performing Arts9. Dance, Goldie Morgentaler10. Music, Matthew Ingleby11. Musical Theatre, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman12. Rap Music, Melisa Klimaszewski13. Puppets, David EllisonPart IV: Visual Arts14. Illustration, Julia Thomas15. Caricature, Brian Maidment16. Landscape, Malcolm Andrews17. Photography, Daniel A. Novak18. High Art, Jeremy Tambling19. Architecture, Ben MoorePart V: Screen20. Silent Dickens, Joss Marsh21. Twenty-First-Century Television, Christine Geraghty22. Hollywood and British Cinema, Barry Langford23. Global Cinema, Marty GouldPart VI: National and International Dickens24. Translations, Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee25. Global Dickens, Michael Hollington26. Education, Sarah Winter27. Political Art and the Art of Politics, Dominic Rainsford28. New Media and Cyberspace, Emma CurryPart VII: Cultural Memory29. Dickens and Shakespeare, Pete Orford30. Dickensiana, Ryan D. Fong31. Placing Dickens, Charlotte Mathieson32. Commemoration, Claire WoodNotes on ContributorsIndex

...includes rigorously researched surveys of particular themes alongside essays that make more of an attempt to unsettle critical orthodoxies about Dickens’s texts and their cultural contexts.

Juliet John is Vice President, Education, and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian studies. Among her books are Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001), Dickens and Mass Culture (2010), (ed.) Dickens and Modernity (2012) and (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016). Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation and Dickens’s ghost stories.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAhead of its Time: Dickens’s Prescient Vision of the Arts, Juliet John and Claire WoodPart I: Novel Arts1. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and the Novel, Paul Baines2. The Novel and the Arts of Modern Vision, Francesca Orestano3. Fanfiction, Maureen EnglandPart II: Theatre and Drama4. Clowns, Jonathan Buckmaster5. Melodrama, Carolyn Williams6. Amateur Theatricals, Mary Isbell7. Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations, Jim Davis8. Dickens and Drama, Gillian PiggottPart III: Performing Arts9. Dance, Goldie Morgentaler10. Music, Matthew Ingleby11. Musical Theatre, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman12. Rap Music, Melisa Klimaszewski13. Puppets, David EllisonPart IV: Visual Arts14. Illustration, Julia Thomas15. Caricature, Brian Maidment16. Landscape, Malcolm Andrews17. Photography, Daniel A. Novak18. High Art, Jeremy Tambling19. Architecture, Ben MoorePart V: Screen20. Silent Dickens, Joss Marsh21. Twenty-First-Century Television, Christine Geraghty22. Hollywood and British Cinema, Barry Langford23. Global Cinema, Marty GouldPart VI: National and International Dickens24. Translations, Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee25. Global Dickens, Michael Hollington26. Education, Sarah Winter27. Political Art and the Art of Politics, Dominic Rainsford28. New Media and Cyberspace, Emma CurryPart VII: Cultural Memory29. Dickens and Shakespeare, Pete Orford30. Dickensiana, Ryan D. Fong31. Placing Dickens, Charlotte Mathieson32. Commemoration, Claire WoodNotes on ContributorsIndex

...includes rigorously researched surveys of particular themes alongside essays that make more of an attempt to unsettle critical orthodoxies about Dickens’s texts and their cultural contexts.

Juliet John is Vice President, Education, and Professor of English Literature at City, University of London. She has published widely on Dickens and Victorian studies. Among her books are Dickens’s Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture (2001), Dickens and Mass Culture (2010), (ed.) Dickens and Modernity (2012) and (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Literary Culture (2016). Claire Wood is Associate Professor in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. She is the author of Dickens and the Business of Death (2015) and has published on epitaphs, material culture, adaptation and Dickens’s ghost stories.

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgementsAhead of its Time: Dickens’s Prescient Vision of the Arts, Juliet John and Claire WoodPart I: Novel Arts1. Eighteenth-Century Cultures and the Novel, Paul Baines2. The Novel and the Arts of Modern Vision, Francesca Orestano3. Fanfiction, Maureen EnglandPart II: Theatre and Drama4. Clowns, Jonathan Buckmaster5. Melodrama, Carolyn Williams6. Amateur Theatricals, Mary Isbell7. Nineteenth-Century Stage Adaptations, Jim Davis8. Dickens and Drama, Gillian PiggottPart III: Performing Arts9. Dance, Goldie Morgentaler10. Music, Matthew Ingleby11. Musical Theatre, Sharon Aronofsky Weltman12. Rap Music, Melisa Klimaszewski13. Puppets, David EllisonPart IV: Visual Arts14. Illustration, Julia Thomas15. Caricature, Brian Maidment16. Landscape, Malcolm Andrews17. Photography, Daniel A. Novak18. High Art, Jeremy Tambling19. Architecture, Ben MoorePart V: Screen20. Silent Dickens, Joss Marsh21. Twenty-First-Century Television, Christine Geraghty22. Hollywood and British Cinema, Barry Langford23. Global Cinema, Marty GouldPart VI: National and International Dickens24. Translations, Klaudia Hiu Yen Lee25. Global Dickens, Michael Hollington26. Education, Sarah Winter27. Political Art and the Art of Politics, Dominic Rainsford28. New Media and Cyberspace, Emma CurryPart VII: Cultural Memory29. Dickens and Shakespeare, Pete Orford30. Dickensiana, Ryan D. Fong31. Placing Dickens, Charlotte Mathieson32. Commemoration, Claire WoodNotes on ContributorsIndex

...includes rigorously researched surveys of particular themes alongside essays that make more of an attempt to unsettle critical orthodoxies about Dickens’s texts and their cultural contexts.