Dickens's clowns : Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the pantomime of life / Jonathan Buckmaster

Author: Buckmaster, Jonathan
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
Copyright Date: ©2019
Physical Description: xi, 220 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

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Edinburgh critical studies in Victorian culture

Contents

Machine generated contents note: 1.Introduction -- pt. I Dickens, Grimaldi and the Pantomime Clown -- 2.Pantomime and Pantomime Clowning -- 3.Dickens at the Pantomime -- pt. II Dickens and the Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi -- 4.The Memoirs as Nineteenth-Century Biography -- 5.George Cruikshank as Co-Biographer of the Memoirs -- pt. III The Clown at Large -- 6.The Gluttonous Clown -- 7.The Slapstick Clown -- 8.The Clothed Clown.

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Criticism, interpretation, etc

ISBN

1474406955 hardcover
9781474406956 hardcover

Bibliography Note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-214) and index.

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