Dickens's clowns : Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the pantomime of life
Record details
- ISBN: 1474406971
- ISBN: 9781474406970
- ISBN: 9781474406956
- ISBN: 1474406955
- ISBN: 1474406963
- ISBN: 9781474406963
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Physical Description:
1 online resource
remote - Publisher: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2019]
- Copyright: ©2019
Content descriptions
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 |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
Source of Description Note: | description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 23, 2020). |
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Subject: | Dickens, Charles -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation Grimaldi, Joseph -- 1779-1837 Dickens, Charles -- 1812-1870 -- Characters -- Clowns Dickens, Charles -- 1812-1870 |
Genre: | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |