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

Summary: This book reappraises Dickens's Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Intro -- 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
Source of Description Note:	description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2020).