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Introduction: Dickens, Science and the Victorian Literary Imagination (2010)

Winyard, Ben (Author)
Furneaux, Holly (Author)

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century
Volume: 10
Pages: Approx. 6,450 words

Publication Date: 2010
Edition Details: Introduction to a special issue. http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/index.php/19/article/view/572 (Accessed March 21, 2011).
Language: English

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In this introduction to the Dickens and Science issue of 19, Holly Furneaux and Ben Winyard consider the relationship between Dickens's writing, science and the Victorian literary imagination. Dickens's response to scientific ideas was very often at the heart of his cherished ideal that literature should show `the romantic side of familiar things', illuminating the wonder, even magic, of everyday phenomena for people of all classes, and affectively uniting them by relieving a shared thirst for imaginative succour.

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Article Perletti, Greta (2010) Dickens, Victorian Mental Sciences and Mnemonic Errancy. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. unapi

Article Makras, Kostas (2010) Dickensian Intemperance: The Representation of the Drunkard in “The Drunkard's Death” and The Pickwick Papers. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. unapi

Article Parham, John (2010) Dickens in the City: Science, Technology, Ecology in the Novels of Charles Dickens. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. unapi

Article Connor, Steven (2010) All I Believed is True: Dickens under the Influence. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. unapi

Article Bown, Nicola (2010) What the Alligator Didn't Know: Natural Selection and Love in Our Mutual Friend. 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century. unapi

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