Beschreibung
Charles Dickens seems to continue a British tradition in which dynamism and movement are central. This is the starting point for a bicentenary conference held at Leipzig University in 2012. The contributions united in this volume deal with aspects of Dickens’ travel experience, adaptations and re-writings of his texts and questions of reception.
Autorenportrait
Stefan Welz teaches English Literature and New English Literatures at Leipzig University and has translated literary works of various English and American authors.
Elmar Schenkel is Professor of English at Leipzig University. He is the director of the studium universale, a writer and a translator.
Inhalt
Contents: Elmar Schenkel: Moving through the Night: Dickens’s Walks in Nocturnal London – Stefan Lampadius:
and Dickens’ Projects of Reform – Maria Fleischhack: Multilayered Identity and Palimpsest in Charles Dickens’
– Stefan Welz: Dickens Goes South: A Gentleman’s Perspective – Franziska Burstyn: Charles Dickens: A Disney Carol. Disney’s Adaptations of Dickens’
and
– Franziska E. Kohlt: Back to the Future: The Time Traveller’s Traumatic Jetlag in
– Luise Wolff: «The world warped to his fancy»: Charles Dickens in Richard Flanagan’s
– Anna Wille: «Dickens did not write what the people wanted. Dickens wanted what the people wanted.» G.K. Chesterton’s Charles Dickens as character and critique – Marie-Luise Egbert: «Please, sir, I want some more»: Representations of Poverty on the Move – Dietmar Böhnke: The Lost Leipzig Letters: Charles Dickens, Bernhard Tauchnitz and the German Connection – Max Hübner: Charles Dickens and New Zealand: A Long-Distance Relationship with a Future.
