Category Archives: Patten, Robert L.
Charles Dickens’s Victorian Christmas Part 2
Elliot Engel lectures and writes about the life and times of Charles Dickens. Robert Patten is at work on a study of the Victorian illustrator George Cruikshank. 430 – Charles Dickens’s Victorian Christmas Part 2
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Charles Dickens’s Victorian Christmas Part 1
Elliot Engel lectures and writes about the life and times of Charles Dickens. Robert Patten is at work on a study of the Victorian illustrator George Cruikshank. 429 – Charles Dickens’s Victorian Christmas Part 1
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The Image and the Audience
Beatrice Farwell discusses her interest in popular imagery and high art in the pictorial culture of nineteenth-century France, a century that saw the introduction of mass media for the reproduction of both word and image. In the second segment [13:45], Robert … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, French art -- Nineteenth century, George Cruikshank
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Remembering Boz
Robert Patten speaks of his book Charles Dickens and his Publishers and his edition of The Pickwick Papers, one of Dickens’s most popular novels. At the time of this interview, Patten, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1986-87), was professor of English at … Continue reading
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Tagged Biography, Charles Dickens, Publishing industry -- history
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