Dickens’s Clowns Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the Pantomime of Life

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English | ISBN: 1474406955 | 2019 | 232 pages | PDF | 8 MB
Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles Dickens

This book reappraises Dickens’s Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist. Arguing that the Memoirs should be read as integral to Dickens’s wider creative project on the theatricality of everyday existence, Jonathan Buckmaster analyses how Grimaldi’s clown stepped into many of Dickens’s novels.
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