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This a warm, wonderful book, and a book of wonders. Christopher Pittard brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which stage conjuring - with its acts of misdirection, sleight of hand, unreliability - offers many analogues and parallels with the Victorian novel, and at its heart, the book contains a long and revolutionary account of Charles Dickens as the greatest literary stage magician. Like his subjects, Pittard is a dazzling critical prestidigitator - this is the kind that can move seamlessly from Roland Bathes to Tommy Cooper in the same sentence.--Darryl Jones, Trinity College Dublin

This a warm, wonderful book, and a book of wonders. Christopher Pittard brilliantly demonstrates the ways in which stage conjuring - with its acts of misdirection, sleight of hand, unreliability - offers many analogues and parallels with the Victorian novel, and at its heart, the book contains a long and revolutionary account of Charles Dickens as the greatest literary stage magician. Like his subjects, Pittard is a dazzling critical prestidigitator - this is the kind that can move seamlessly from Roland Barthes to Tommy Cooper in the same sentence.--Darryl Jones, Trinity College Dublin

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Christopher Pittard is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Portsmouth, specialising in Victorian literature. His books include a new critical edition of The Return of Sherlock Holmes (2023), The Cambridge Companion to Sherlock Holmes (2019), and Purity and Contamination in Late Victorian Detective Fiction (2011). He has published numerous articles on Victorian culture in journals including Studies in the Novel, 19; Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century, Victorian Periodicals Review, Clues: A Journal of Detection, and Women: A Cultural Review.

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