Dickens and Decadence
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Product details:
- Publisher Edinburgh University Press
- Date of Publication 31 August 2025
- Number of Volumes Print PDF
- ISBN 9781399527026
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 234x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black & white illustrations 692
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Short description:
Examines themes of decadence in Charles Dickens’s work and the ways in which the Decadent movement responded to Dickens.
MoreLong description:
Bringing together leading scholars from the fields of Dickens studies and decadence studies, this collection considers the ways in which Dickens’s work can be placed into dialogue with various ideas of decadence. It includes chapters dealing with Dickens’s treatment of the decadence he saw manifested in mid-Victorian society; his treatment of the themes of decadence and decay in his work, including anticipations of, and unconscious sympathies towards positions which came to define fin-de-siècle Decadence; and the ways in which Decadent writers from the 1880s–1920s responded to Dickens. This book therefore broadens our understanding of the work and the significance of Dickens as a pre-eminent Victorian novelist and also deepens our understanding of the contours of fin-de-siècle Decadence.
MoreTable of Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Series Preface
Notes on Contributors
List of Abbreviations
Introduction: From Dickens’s Decadence to a Decadent Dickens
Giles Whiteley and Jonathan Foster
Part I. Dickens on Decadence
1. ‘I almost wonder that YOU never turned your thoughts to Africa’: Decadent Commodity Culture in Bleak House
Grace Moore
2. Skimpole’s Peasant Boy: Dickens, Tolstoy and Decadence
Tom Hubbard
3. Maladministration: Dickens, Decadence and the Higher Civil Service
Jonathan Foster
4. ‘The Spike that Intervenes’: The Corruption of the East by the Decadence of the West in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Pete Orford
Part II. Dickens’s Decadence
5. The Theatre of Cruelty of Our Mutual Friend
John Bowen
6. ‘But then I mean so much that I – that I don’t mean’: Sincerity and Decadence in Our Mutual Friend
Tamsin Evernden
7. Dickens: Dining Decadently
Claire Wood
8. Anti-Chronology: Decadence in Carlyle, Dickens and Baudelaire
Jeremy Tambling
Part III. Decadent Dickens
9. Huysmans’ Dickensian Ark: Decadence and the Domestic
Giles Whiteley
10. ‘When to Lie and How’: Caricature and the Decadent Legacy of Charles Dickens
Kimberly J. Stern
11. Charles Dickens, Arthur Machen and the Aesthetic Alchemy of Things
Dennis Denisoff
12. Three Masters: Charles Dickens in the Work of Stefan Zweig, Gustav Meyrink and Franz Kafka
James Dowthwaite
Postscript: Dickens’s Wild Style
Giles Whiteley
Index
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