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- Title
Abetting "Literary Sins": The Dickensian and the Drood Phenomenon.
- Authors
Daly, Kari
- Abstract
This essay examines why the years between 1905 and 1915 generated a massive amount of commentary concerning Charles Dickens's The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Building on Don Richard Cox's influential bibliography of the novel's reception, I suggest that the Dickens Fellowship's journal, the Dickensian , actively cultivated a new audience of Dickens readers through its careful curation of Droodiana. By pursuing inclusive policies that attracted professionals, lay readers, and academics alike, the Dickensian helped resuscitate a novel that might otherwise have been forgotten. Such an approach might be mimicked today, I argue, to help generate canons of criticism for lost Victorian works.
- Subjects
DICKENS, Charles, 1812-1870; SIN; BIBLIOGRAPHY; SCHOLARSHIPS; CRITICISM; CANON (Literature); PROFESSIONAL employees
- Publication
Victorian Periodicals Review, 2022, Vol 55, Issue 1, p51
- ISSN
0709-4698
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1353/vpr.2022.0002