Reading Dickens Differently

LEON LITVACK is Professor of Victorian Studies at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. He is Principal Editor of the Charles Dickens Letters Project and has authored numerous publications on the historical and visual approaches to Dickens. NATHALIE VANFASSE is Professor of English at Aix-Marseille Université, France. Her monograph, La plume et la route: Charles Dickens, écrivain-voyageur was winner of the 2018 SELVA book prize.

• List of Figures viiNotes on Contributors ixAcknowledgements xiiiAbbreviations xvIntroduction 1Leon Litvack and Nathalie VanfassePart I Reconfiguring Dickens 131 Dickens’s Burial in Westminster Abbey: The Untold Story 15Leon Litvack2 A Tale of Two Brothers: Reading Differently Dickens’s French Revolution 47Lillian Nayder3 Parallel Lives, Converging Destinies: Charles Dickens and Thomas Babington Macaulay 61David Paroissien4 Decent Restraint Spurned: Dickens, Penal Policy and Conflict at Cold Bath Fields Prison, 1846–1850 75Neil DaviePart II Reincorporating Dickens 935 A Somatic Experience of Dickens’s Fiction 95Georges Letissier6 Dickens and Lawrence: Mimicry, Totemism, Animism 113Michael Hollington7 Wreckage and Ruin: Turner, Dickens, Ruskin 125Jeremy Tambling8 Boz without Phiz: Reading Dickens with Different Illustrations 149Chris LouttitPart III Resetting Dickens 1659 Speculation and Silence: Reading Dickens by Instalment in Time, at the Time and for Our Time 167Pete Orford10 Dickens Touches the Sky: Urban Exploration and London’s Greatest Author 185Gillian Piggott11 Dickens as Icon and Antonomasia in Assassin’s Creed: Syndicate 207Francesca Orestano12 From Movable Book to iPad App: Playing a Christmas Carol 223Claire WoodIndex 243

“…this is a valuable acquisition for scholars wishing to rethink the boundaries of their own research methodologies and focuses. Dickens’s readers will appreciate the indication this collection gives that more precise history of the author and his increasingly interactive corpus are both waiting to be developed and explored in the twenty-first century.” - Dickens Quarterly, Volume 37, Number 2, June 2020, pp. 192-195 (Review)