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Review from previous edition persuasively argued [] a great contribution to cultural studies and to Victorian studies. P.C Fleming, Review 19 Dickens Studies needs this book; the first to wrestle, in a detailed way, with Dickens's strangely overlooked relationship with mass culture ... [T]he richness of John's engagement with Dickens's mass appeal has provided Dickens studies with a crucial missing narrative. This will be a valuable book for thing theorists, those working in affect studies, reception studies and film studies, as well as Victorianists and Dickensians. Holly Furneaux, Journal of Victorian Culture an incisive, challenging, and richly rewarding study, which firmly establishes her reputation in the vanguard not only of Dickens critics but also of cultural theorists and historians. Dickens and Mass Culture is a deeply informe, wise and hugely illuminating study of some of the issues central to Dickens's reputation from the 1830s to the present day. Juliet John is to be congratulated for the clarity and graceful tact with which she leads us through large issues of great complexity ... essential reading. Paul Schlicke, Dickens Quarterly fascinating study ... The scope of John's analysis is most impressive ... Amidst the dizzying array of books published in anticipation of the Dickens bicentenary ... Dickens and Mass Culture [is] particularly notable ... Well-written, provocative, and historically informed ... fertile ground for further sustained investigation of Dickens's grand design particularly and Victorian cultural studies more generally. Maria K. Bachman, Nines

`Review from previous edition persuasively argued [] a great contribution to cultural studies and to Victorian studies.' P.C Fleming, Review 19 `Dickens Studies needs this book; the first to wrestle, in a detailed way, with Dickens's strangely overlooked relationship with mass culture ... [T]he richness of John's engagement with Dickens's mass appeal has provided Dickens studies with a crucial missing narrative. This will be a valuable book for thing theorists, those working in affect studies, reception studies and film studies, as well as Victorianists and Dickensians.' Holly Furneaux, Journal of Victorian Culture `an incisive, challenging, and richly rewarding study, which firmly establishes her reputation in the vanguard not only of Dickens critics but also of cultural theorists and historians. Dickens and Mass Culture is a deeply informe, wise and hugely illuminating study of some of the issues central to Dickens's reputation from the 1830s to the present day. Juliet John is to be congratulated for the clarity and graceful tact with which she leads us through large issues of great complexity ... essential reading.' Paul Schlicke, Dickens Quarterly `fascinating study ... The scope of John's analysis is most impressive ... Amidst the dizzying array of books published in anticipation of the Dickens bicentenary ... Dickens and Mass Culture [is] particularly notable ... Well-written, provocative, and historically informed ... fertile ground for further sustained investigation of Dickens's grand design particularly and Victorian cultural studies more generally.' Maria K. Bachman, Nines

`Review from previous edition persuasively argued [] a great contribution to cultural studies and to Victorian studies.' P.C Fleming, Review 19 `Dickens Studies needs this book; the first to wrestle, in a detailed way, with Dickens's strangely overlooked relationship with mass culture ... [T]he richness of John's engagement with Dickens's mass appeal has provided Dickens studies with a crucial missing narrative. This will be a valuable book for thing theorists, those working in affect studies, reception studies and film studies, as well as Victorianists and Dickensians.' Holly Furneaux, Journal of Victorian Culture `an incisive, challenging, and richly rewarding study, which firmly establishes her reputation in the vanguard not only of Dickens critics but also of cultural theorists and historians. Dickens and Mass Culture is a deeply informe, wise and hugely illuminating study of some of the issues central to Dickens's reputation from the 1830s to the present day. Juliet John is to be congratulated for the clarity and graceful tact with which she leads us through large issues of great complexity ... essential reading.' Paul Schlicke, Dickens Quarterly `fascinating study ... The scope of John's analysis is most impressive ... Amidst the dizzying array of books published in anticipation of the Dickens bicentenary ... Dickens and Mass Culture [is] particularly notable ... Well-written, provocative, and historically informed ... fertile ground for further sustained investigation of Dickens's ""grand design"" particularly and Victorian cultural studies more generally.' Maria K. Bachman, Nines

fascinating study ... The scope of John's analysis is most impressive ... Amidst the dizzying array of books published in anticipation of the Dickens bicentenary ... Dickens and Mass Culture [is] particularly notable ... Well-written, provocative, and historically informed ... fertile ground for further sustained investigation of Dickens's grand design particularly and Victorian cultural studies more generally. * Maria K. Bachman, Nines * an incisive, challenging, and richly rewarding study, which firmly establishes her reputation in the vanguard not only of Dickens critics but also of cultural theorists and historians. Dickens and Mass Culture is a deeply informe, wise and hugely illuminating study of some of the issues central to Dickens's reputation from the 1830s to the present day. Juliet John is to be congratulated for the clarity and graceful tact with which she leads us through large issues of great complexity ... essential reading. * Paul Schlicke, Dickens Quarterly * Dickens Studies needs this book; the first to wrestle, in a detailed way, with Dickens's strangely overlooked relationship with mass culture ... [T]he richness of John's engagement with Dickens's mass appeal has provided Dickens studies with a crucial missing narrative. This will be a valuable book for thing theorists, those working in affect studies, reception studies and film studies, as well as Victorianists and Dickensians. * Holly Furneaux, Journal of Victorian Culture * Review from previous edition persuasively argued [] a great contribution to cultural studies and to Victorian studies. * P.C Fleming, Review 19 *

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Juliet John is Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature at Royal Holloway, University of London.

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