DICKENS IN BYRON'S CHAIR: AUTHENTICITY, AUTHOR PORTRAITS, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY VISUAL CULTURE

@article{Shannon2018DICKENSIB,
  title={DICKENS IN BYRON'S CHAIR: AUTHENTICITY, AUTHOR PORTRAITS, AND NINETEENTH-CENTURY VISUAL CULTURE},
  author={Mary L. Shannon},
  journal={Victorian Literature and Culture},
  year={2018},
  volume={46},
  pages={57 - 81}
}
  • Mary L. Shannon
  • Published 1 March 2018
  • History
  • Victorian Literature and Culture
Dickens's comic account of a charity dinner for the “Indigent Orphans’ Friends Benevolent Institution” in his sketch “Public Dinners” (Sketches by ‘Boz’) is illustrated in the 1838 serial and 1839 volume editions with the image in Figure 2. 
View on Cambridge Press
cambridge.org
2 Citations

2 Citations

Citation Type

Citation Type

The Multiple Lives of Billy Waters: Dangerous Theatricality and Networked Illustrations in Nineteenth-Century Popular Culture
Billy Waters (c. 1780–1823), the ‘King of the Beggars’, was a London street-performer and a well-known figure in early nineteenth-century popular culture, yet despite this he has received no…
Recent Dickens Studies: 2018

References

SHOWING 1-10 OF 87 REFERENCES
Charles Dickens and his performing selves : Dickens and the public readings
Premiere: New York, December 1867 1. A Community of Readers 2. Reading, Reciting, Acting 3. Impersonation 4. Celebrity on Tour 5. Performance 'Sikes and Nancy': A Re-enactment 6. A 'New Expression of…
The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture,1760-1860
Theater and Painting The Legible Face: Romantic Anti-Theatricality and the Cult of Garrick Performing the Real: Reynolds, Mrs. Abington, and the Birth of Celebrity Culture Prints and Exhibitions…
Nineteenth-Century Media and the Construction of Identities
This collection of research in 19th-century media history represents some salient developments in the field. Taking as its theme the way the media serves to define national, ethnic, professional,…
Dickens and Mass Culture
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS EDITIONS AND ABBREVIATIONS INTRODUCTION PART ONE - DICKENS IN HIS DAY 1. The Amusements of the People: Cultural Politics, Class and Commerce 2. 'A body without…
Dickens, Reynolds, and Mayhew on Wellington Street : The Print Culture of a Victorian Street
Contents: Introduction Morning: 'the smallness of the world' Afternoon: 'dissolute and idle persons' Evening: 'the showman introduces himself' Night: 'the compass of the world and they that dwell…
Victorian literature and the Victorian visual imagination
19th-century British culture frequently represented the eye as the pre-eminent organ of truth. These essays explore the relationship between the verbal and the visual in the Victorian imagination.…
"Flash style": Pierce Egan and literary London, 1820-28.
  • G. Dart
  • History
    History workshop journal : HWJ
  • 2001
TLDR
Life in London positively rejoices in the role-playing nature of modern urban existence: unlike many of the ‘bourgeois’ classics of the High Victorian period, it is more interested in viewing class society as a repertoire of possibilities – of Ins and Outs, Ups and Downs – than in putting individuals in their place.
Dickens as Serial Author: A Case of Multiple Identities
TLDR
The cases are important exceptions to the primacy of book publication throughout the century, for, as the eminent literary historian George Saintsbury has said, there is no single feature of the English literary history of the nineteenth century which is so distinctive and characteristic as the development in it of periodical literature.
The Shock of the Real: Romanticism and Visual Culture, 1760–1860. By Gillen D'Arcy Wood. New York: Palgrave, 2001; pp. 273. $49.95 hardcover
The Shock of the Real treats the relationship between literary Romanticism and the visual popular culture of the late-eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Gillen D'Arcy Wood argues…
Pictures from Italy
A delightful travelogue in the unique style of one of the greatest writers in the English language, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Charles Dickens' "Pictures from Italy" is edited with notes and…
...
...