Global Dickens

Contents: Introduction; Part I Reception: Russian Dickens studies, 1970-1995, Nina Diakonova; First steps toward a history of the mid-Victorian novel in colonial Australia, Tim Dolin; The introduction of Dickens into China (1906-1960): a case study in target culture reception, Eva Hung; Global Dickens, John O. Jordan; Dickens in Japan, Masaie Matsumura; French studies on Dickens since 1970, Anny Sadrin; Dickens and Barradas in Madrid, 1921: a hospitable meeting, Beatriz Vegh. Part II Intertextuality: Agnon's Dickensian moment: 'Baya'ar uva'ir', Nehama Aschkenasy; Nostalgia to amnesia: Charles Dickens, Marcus Clarke and narratives of Australia's convict origins, Beth A. Boehm; Literary origins (II): Dickens, Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochere; A colonial city and its time(s), Ranajit Guha; Close reading at a distance: the African Americanization of Bleak House, Daniel Hack; Postcolonial Dickens, John O. Jordan. Part III Dickens and Travel: Dickens discovers Dickens, Jerome Meckier; Charles Dickens and Italy: The 'new picturesque', Francesca Orestano; Crossing the Channel with Dickens, Dominic Rainsford. Part IV Worldly Matters: Foreign languages and original understanding in Little Dorrit, Matthias Bauer; Despatched to the periphery: the changing play of centre and periphery in Dickens's work, Brian Cheadle; Savages and settlers in Dickens: reading multiple centres, Anthony Chennells; Realism, fetishism and genocide: Negro Head tobacco in and around Great Expectations, Elaine Freedgood; Arctic highlanders and Englishmen: Dickens, cannibalism, and sensation, Jen Hill; The redemptive powers of violence? Carlyle, Marx and Dickens, Gareth Stedman Jones; Mutiny echoes: India, Britons, and Charles Dickens's A Tale of Two Cities, Priti Joshi; Sucking the Empire dry: colonial critique in The Mystery of Edwin Drood, Miriam O'Kane Mara; The racial other, Grace Moore; 'Wholesale, retail and for exportation': empire and the family business in Dombey and Son, Suvendrini Pere