Dickens, Death, and Afterlives
- Submitting institution
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The University of Leicester
- Unit of assessment
- 27 - English Language and Literature
- Output identifier
- 2258
- Type
- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- Edingburgh University Press
- ISBN
- 0000000000
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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0
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- Proposed double-weighted
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- Reserve for an output with double weighting
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- Additional information
- Wood was responsible, with one co-editor, for conceiving, curating and editing this 6 article sesquicentenary special issue marking the 150th anniversary of Dickens's death. This included writing an 8,000 word article ('Dickens and the Art of Epitaph') and co-writing a 5,700 word introduction, which examines the distinctive character of sesquicentenary celebrations in comparison with the 1970 and 2012 anniversaries and identifies emerging trends, in addition to reflecting on the state of the field and introducing individual articles. Together Wood and Bell developed the core concept and tripartite structure of the volume - which explores death in Dickens's writing, re-examines the writing of Dickens's own death through a metabiographical approach, and explores Dickens's afterlife in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries - and invited the contributors. Bell and Wood also conducted editorial work and peer-reviewed the volume, shaping contributor's essays, prior to Victoriographies' formal review and copy-editing processes.
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- Non-English
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