TY - GEN AU - Lennartz,Norbert AU - Koch,Dieter AU - Lennartz,Norbert AU - Koch,Dieter TI - Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality : Dickens as a Reader SN - /doi.org/10.14220/9783737002868 PY - 2014/// PB - V&R unipress KW - Anthologies (non-poetry) KW - bicssc KW - Literary Collections KW - European KW - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh N1 - Open Access N2 - While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children’s literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers – from Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes to Swift, Smollett and Bulwer-Lytton – Dickens’s novels reveal a multi-layered cosmos and supply their readers with richly woven nets of intertextuality UR - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/49465/1/external_content.pdf UR - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/70746 ER -