Table Of ContentThe Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer
School of Advanced Study, University of London
Published Volumes
Volume I: The Reception of Virginia Woolf in Europe
Edited by Mary Ann Caws and Nicola Luckhurst
Volume II: The Reception of Laurence Sterne in Europe
Edited by Peter de Voogd and John Neubauer
Volume III: The Reception of James Joyce in Europe
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Volume IV: The Reception of Walter Pater in Europe
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Volume V: The Reception of Ossian in Europe
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Volume VI: The Reception of Byron in Europe
Edited by Richard Cardwell
Volume VII: The Reception of H. G. Wells in Europe
Edited by Patrick Parrinder and John Partington
Volume VIII: The Reception of Jonathan Swift in Europe
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Volume IX: The Reception of David Hume in Europe
Edited by Peter Jones
Volume X: The Reception of W. B. Yeats in Europe
Edited by Klaus Peter Jochum
Volume XI: The Reception of Henry James in Europe
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Volume XII: The Reception of D. H. Lawrence in Europe
Edited by Dieter Mehl and Christa Jansohn
Volume XIII: The Reception of Sir Walter Scott in Europe
Edited by Murray Pittock
Volume XIV: The Reception of Jane Austen in Europe
Edited by A. A. Mandal and Brian Southam
Volume XV: The Reception of S. T. Coleridge in Europe
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Volume XVI: The Reception of P. B. Shelley in Europe
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Volume XVII: The Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
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Volume XVIII: The Reception of Oscar Wilde in Europe
Edited by Stefano Evangelista
Forthcoming volumes in the series include:
The Reception of Isaac Newton in Europe
Edited by Helmut Pulte and Scott Mandelbrote
The Reception of Robert Burns in Europe
Edited by Murray Pittock
The Reception of George Eliot in Europe
Edited by Catherine Brown and Elinor Shaffer
The Literary and Cultural Reception of Charles Darwin in Europe
Edited by Thomas F. Glick and Elinor Shaffer
The Reception of William Blake in Europe
Edited by Sibylle Erle and Morton D. Paley
The Reception of British and Irish Authors in Europe
Series Editor: Elinor Shaffer
School of Advanced Study, University of London
The Reception of Charles Dickens
in Europe
Volume I & II
Michael Hollington
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Contents
Volume I
Series Editor’s Preface x
Elinor Shaffer
Acknowledgements xv
List of Contributors xvii
Abbreviations xxiv
Timeline of the European Reception of Charles Dickens,
1833–2013 xxv
Anthony Cummins and Michael Hollington
Introduction 1
Michael Hollington
Part 1: The Reception of Dickens in Germany 17
1 Dickens in Germany: The Nineteenth Century 19
Antje Anderson
2 The Reception of Dickens in Germany, 1900–45 35
Norbert Lennartz
3 Dickens’s Reception in Germany after 1945 51
Stefan Welz
4 German Illustrations 69
Joachim Möller
Part 2: The Reception of Dickens in Russia 77
5 Dickens in Russia: A Survey 79
Nina Diakonova
6 Dickens in Leo Tolstoy’s Universe 86
Galina Alekseeva
7 The Underground Passage: Dickens and Dostoevsky 93
Michael Hollington
8 Dickens in Twentieth-Century Russia 103
Emily Finer
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Part 3: The Reception of Dickens in France 121
9 A Historical Survey of French Criticism and Scholarship
on Dickens 123
Nathalie Vanfasse
10 Dickens in France: Major Writers 142
Christine Huguet
11 Dickens’s Illustrations: France and Other Countries 154
Gilles Soubigou
Part 4: The Reception of Dickens in Spain and Portugal 167
12 The Spanish Dickens: Under Cervantes’s Inevitable Shadow 169
Fernando Galván and Paul Vita
13 Dickens in Catalan Literature 182
Sílvia Coll-Vinent and Marcel Ortín
14 Dickens and Galdós 191
Jeremy Tambling
15 Dickens in Portugal 197
Maria Leonor Machado de Sousa
Part 5: The Reception of Dickens in Italy 213
16 Dickens’s Reception in Italy: Criticism 215
Clotilde de Stasio
17 The Making of a Classic: A Survey of Italian Translations 224
Alessandro Vescovi
18 Magic Lantern, Magic Realism: Italian Writers and
Dickens from the End of the Nineteenth Century to the
1980s 231
Francesca Orestano
Part 6: Other German-speaking National Traditions 245
19 Dickens in Austria and German-speaking Switzerland 247
Herbert Foltinek
Contents vii
Part 7: Other French-speaking National Traditions 257
20 Boz as Tutor: The Reception of Dickens in Francophone
Belgium 259
Carlene A. Adamson
21 Dickens in Francophone Switzerland 272
Neil Forsyth and Martine Hennard Dutheil de la Rochère
Part 8: Dutch-speaking National Traditions 281
22 Dickens’s Reception in the Netherlands 283
Odin Dekkers
23 Dickens’s Reception in Flanders 295
Walter Verschueren
Bibliography 302
Volume II
Part 9: Scandinavian National Traditions 365
24 The Reception of Charles Dickens in Denmark from the
1830s to the Present 367
Dominic Rainsford
25 Dickens’s Reception in Finland 388
H. K. Riikonen
26 The Tale and the Toothpick: On Dickens in Iceland 399
Ástraður Eysteinsson
27 Dickens in Norway 409
Tore Rem
28 Dickens in Sweden 430
Ishrat Lindblad
Part 10: Slavonic National Traditions 447
29 An Uninterrupted Journey: Seventeen Decades of
Dickens Reception in the Czech Lands 449
Zdeněk Beran
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30 Dickens in Slovakia 466
Soňa Šnircová
31 Dickens in Croatia 476
Sintija Čuljat
32 Dickens in Poland 481
Ewa Kujawska-Lis
33 Dickens in Bulgaria 496
Vladimir Trendafilov
Part 11: Baltic National Traditions 507
34 Dickens in Estonia 509
Suliko Liiv and Julia Tofantšuk
35 The Reception of Dickens in Latvia 515
Inara Peneze
36 The Great Victorian Realist and Humanist: The
Lithuanian Reception of Dickens 521
Regina Rudaitytė
Part 12: Balkan National Traditions 529
37 Dickens in Romania 531
Monica Bottez
38 Exporting Corinthian Currants, Importing Dickensian
Stories: The Reception of Dickens in Greece 544
Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou and Maria Vara
Part 13: The Hungarian National Tradition 561
39 Dickens in Hungary 563
Géza Maráczi
Part 14: The Georgian National Tradition 577
40 The Reception of Charles Dickens in Georgia 579
Marika Odzeli
Contents ix
Part 15: Dickens in European Film and Television 587
41 Dickens in Film 589
Grahame Smith
42 Dickens in Television 595
Pamela Atzori
Bibliography 600
Index 681
