SDO / 4 Dickens's Signs, Readers' Designs T he eternal life of things, knowledge theory, post-colonial avatars, vi- sual studies, heroines like sexy viragos or un-angelic angels in the hou- se, essays that scan Dickens’s work from the perspective of medical history, animal and poverty studies, flânerie, queer studies, celebration studies, post- Victorian children’s literature and toy studies: these are some of the to- pics addressed in this book, meant for students and teachers, fans, scho- lars, cinema goers, critics, and all Dickens lovers, as it invites discussion from many perspectives. E ssays by: Renate Brosch, Maria Teresa Chialant, Adina Ciugureanu, Claudia Cremonesi, Han- nah Field, Aleksandra K dzierska, Norbert Lennartz, Georges Letissier, Wolfgang G. Müller, Greta Olson, Francesca Orestano, Michele Augusto Riva, Mauro Spicci, Saverio Tomaiuolo, Natha- lie Vanfasse, Alessandro Vescovi, Isabel Vila Cabanes, Angelika Zirker. F rancesca Orestano, Professor of English Literature at the Università degli Studi di Milano, has worked on the Picturesque, on the Gothic, John Neal and American art; on John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Virginia Woolf. She has writen and co-edited books on Strange Sisters. Literature and Aesthetics in the Nineteenth Century (2009), Dickens and Italy (2009), History and Narration (2010). Her essay on the reception of Dickens in Italy is forthcoming in the Continuum volumes on Dickens in 2012. N orbert Lennartz, Professor of English Literature at the University of Vechta, has worked on a variety of authors from Carew to T.S. Eliot. He has written and co- edited books on The Deconstruction of Eroticism and the Body in 17th-century En- glish Poetry (2009) and The Cultural History of Eating in Literature and the Arts (2010). His essay on the reception of Dickens in Germany is forthcoming in the Continuum volumes on Dickens in 2012. In copertina Dickens Dalinesque. ARACNE euro xx,00 9 788854 847675 ISBN 978-88-548-4767-5 Dickens's Signs, Readers' Designs edited by F. Orestano and N. Lennartz | SCRITTURE D’OLTREMANICA / 4 SCRITTURE D’OLTREMANICA / 4 DICKENS'S SIGNS, READERS' DESIGNS edited by Francesca Orestano and Norbert Lennartz NEW BEARINGS IN DICKENS CRITICISM foreword by Michael Hollington