CHARLES DICKENS 200: TEXT AND BEYOND

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Charles Dickens 200: Text and Beyond: a commemorative volume is the second volume in the new SPECHEL e-ditions series. It commemorates the two-hundredth anniversary of Dickens’s birth, and for the purpose brings together, in addition to ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ Dickensians, a curious variety of experts from a miscellany of areas of expertise ranging from folksinger to linguist and even magician.

The chapters approach Charles Dickens from musical aspects ranging from opera to music-hall song and street ballad, from his role as a family conjuror, to psychological analyses of various of his characters and linguistic analysis of his style. He is regarded through the prism of the Irish literary scene but also through the eye of the Hungarian translator of his work, through operatic and photographic adaptations of his subject-matter. Every new chapter produces an exciting and unexpected new facet of the author, whose birth the volume celebrates.

 

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Contents

Andrew C Rouse
1
Géza Maráczi
21
A D Townsend
45
Andrew C Rouse
61
Gabriella Hartvig
85
Mária Kurdi
111
Rudolf Nyári
135
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About the author (2015)

 SPECHEL e-ditions are available electronically but also, for those who prefer to hold a book in their hand, as a print on demand edition.

SPECHEL, the Society for the Popularisation of English Culture and of Hungarian Culture in the English Language Medium, is a registered non-profit society whose activities include the organisation of festivals, clubs, academic and public talks, film screenings – currently, monthly, all 36 of Shakespeare’s plays between 2014 (450th anniversary of his birth) and 2016 (400th anniversary of his death) – , school concerts and competitions. SPECHEL e-ditions is its newest venture, as a publisher.