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Description of  Dickens's Clowns: Charles Dickens, Joseph Grimaldi and the Pantomime of Life (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture)

Establishes the importance of the popular radical figure of the pantomime clown in the work of Charles Dickens This book reappraises Dickenss Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi and his imaginative engagement with its principal protagonist. Arguing that the Memoirs should be read as integral to Dickenss wider creative project on the theatricality of everyday existence, Jonathan Buckmaster analyses how Grimaldis clown stepped into many of Dickenss novels. Read more