Reading Dickens Differently

A COLLECTION OF ORIGINAL ESSAYS AND INNOVATIVE READING STRATEGIES

Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field's leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual and digital—represent new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with Dickens' life and work.

This unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens' death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens' texts in digital form, and more. Revising and refreshing the critical strategies of traditional Dickens studies, this important volume:

• Features new research data on various aspects of Dickens' life
• Discusses a range of innovative reading strategies, including physiological novel theory
• Examines the representation of Dickens in popular media and technology, such as the Assassin's Creed video game and A Christmas Carol iPad app
• Features rare illustrations, including documents and images relating to Dickens' death and funeral

Authoritative, yet accessible, Reading Dickens Differently is a must-have book for Dickens specialists, instructors and students in Victorian fiction and Dickens courses, as well as general readers looking for innovative reading strategies of the author's work.