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Dickens's Clowns : Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the Pantomime of Life / Jonathan Buckmaster.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture : ECSVCPublisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2022]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) : 11 B/W illustrationsContent type:
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  • 9781474406956
  • 9781474406963
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 823.8 23/eng
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Dickens, Grimaldi and the Pantomime Clown -- Chapter 2 Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning -- Chapter 3 Dickens at the Pantomime -- Part II: Dickens and the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi -- Chapter 4 The Memoirs as Nineteenth-Century Biography -- Chapter 5 George Cruikshank as Co-Biographer of the Memoirs -- Part III: The Clown at Large -- Chapter 6 The Gluttonous Clown -- Chapter 7 The Slapstick Clown -- Chapter 8 The Clothed Clown -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles DickensThis book reappraises Dickens’s Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist. Arguing that the Memoirs should be read as integral to Dickens’s wider creative project on the theatricality of everyday existence, Jonathan Buckmaster analyses how Grimaldi’s clown stepped into many of Dickens’s novels.Dickens’s Clowns presents new readings of Dickens’s treatment of topics such as identity, the grotesque and violence within the context of the tropes of the Regency pantomime. This is the first study to identify the Dickensian clown as a unifying force for several Dickensian themes, overturning traditional views of Dickens’s clowns as peripheral figures.Key FeaturesProvides a new reading of one of Dickens’s most neglected texts, and firmly re-establishes it within the Dickens canon as both part of a wider project alongside his other major works of the period and an important influence on later workIdentifies the pantomime routines of the Regency clown as a key cultural influence on Dickens’s work, tracing significant new sources for his comical treatment of violence and his comedy more generallyOffers important new perspectives on two other key themes in Dickens’s work – the use of food and drink within Dickens’s articulation of the bodily grotesque and Dickens’s use of clothing as a radical signifier of individual liberty
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Series Editor’s Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Part I: Dickens, Grimaldi and the Pantomime Clown -- Chapter 2 Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning -- Chapter 3 Dickens at the Pantomime -- Part II: Dickens and the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi -- Chapter 4 The Memoirs as Nineteenth-Century Biography -- Chapter 5 George Cruikshank as Co-Biographer of the Memoirs -- Part III: The Clown at Large -- Chapter 6 The Gluttonous Clown -- Chapter 7 The Slapstick Clown -- Chapter 8 The Clothed Clown -- Bibliography -- Index

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Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles DickensThis book reappraises Dickens’s Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist. Arguing that the Memoirs should be read as integral to Dickens’s wider creative project on the theatricality of everyday existence, Jonathan Buckmaster analyses how Grimaldi’s clown stepped into many of Dickens’s novels.Dickens’s Clowns presents new readings of Dickens’s treatment of topics such as identity, the grotesque and violence within the context of the tropes of the Regency pantomime. This is the first study to identify the Dickensian clown as a unifying force for several Dickensian themes, overturning traditional views of Dickens’s clowns as peripheral figures.Key FeaturesProvides a new reading of one of Dickens’s most neglected texts, and firmly re-establishes it within the Dickens canon as both part of a wider project alongside his other major works of the period and an important influence on later workIdentifies the pantomime routines of the Regency clown as a key cultural influence on Dickens’s work, tracing significant new sources for his comical treatment of violence and his comedy more generallyOffers important new perspectives on two other key themes in Dickens’s work – the use of food and drink within Dickens’s articulation of the bodily grotesque and Dickens’s use of clothing as a radical signifier of individual liberty

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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