"The Grotesque in the Fiction of Charles Dickens and Other 19th-Century European Novelists, edited by Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar and Max Vega-Ritter, manages to shed some new light on a topic that has been the subject of much discussion since the publication of Michael Hollington's Dickens and the Grotesque [1984]."Year's Work in English Studies, 95: 1 (2016)
著者について
Isabelle Hervouet-Farrar is Senior Lecturer in British Literature at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand. She wrote her PhD on the Gothic novel in Britain (1764-1824), and has published several articles on the persistence of the Gothic in the Victorian novel and in the sensation novel. Her research now focuses on Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. She is the editor of a volume on the representation of wandering children in 19th-century literature, titled Enfance et errance dans la literature europeenne du dix-neuvieme siecle (Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal, 2011). Max Vega-Ritter is Emeritus Professor of 19th-century British Literature at Blaise Pascal University in Clermont-Ferrand. He wrote his PhD on Dickens and Thackeray. He has edited two issues of Cahiers Victoriens et Edouardiens devoted to Charles Dickens's fiction, the second more specifically to "Dickens and Madness", and co-edited a volume on gender issues in European fiction, titled L'un(e) mirroir de l'autre (Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal).