Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts

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Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts is written by Claire Wood and published by Edinburgh University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1474441653 (ISBN 10) and 9781474441650 (ISBN 13).

The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.