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oapen-20.500.12657-494652023-08-01T14:09:28Z Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality Lennartz, Norbert Koch, Dieter Literary Collections European English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh bic Book Industry Communication::D Literature & literary studies::DQ Anthologies (non-poetry) While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers – from Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes to Swift, Smollett and Bulwer-Lytton – Dickens’s novels reveal a multi-layered cosmos and supply their readers with richly woven nets of intertextuality. 2021-06-11T03:30:33Z 2021-06-11T03:30:33Z 2014 book 9783737002868 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/49465 eng application/pdf n/a external_content.pdf V&R unipress 10.14220/9783737002868 4983 10.14220/9783737002868 Brill b818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9 9783737002868 Knowledge Unlatched (KU) V&R unipress Knowledge Unlatched open access
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While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers – from Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes to Swift, Smollett and Bulwer-Lytton – Dickens’s novels reveal a multi-layered cosmos and supply their readers with richly woven nets of intertextuality.
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