Dickens Adapted

From their first appearance in print, Dickens's fictions have become a wellspring of inspiration for the full spectrum of genres: plays, films, television specials and series, operas, new novels and even miniature and model villages. The essays in this volume break from earlier mimetic accounts to take the new works seriously within their own generic and historical contexts and reveal an entirely 'other' Dickensian oeuvre: one that has perhaps made Dickens better known to an audience of non-readers than to those who know the books themselves.