The Cambridge Companion To Charles Dickens
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Author | : John O. Jordan |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 262 |
Release | : 2001-06-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521669641 |
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
Author | : Charles Dickens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 251 |
Release | : 2021-09-05 |
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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars that cover the whole range of Dickens' writing. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens' distinctive use of language. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of his novels.
Author | : Jon Mee |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2010-09-02 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139788922 |
Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London.
Author | : Deirdre David |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 291 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1107005132 |
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Author | : Deirdre David |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780521646192 |
In The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel, first published in 2000, a series of specially-commissioned essays examine the work of Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot and other canonical writers, as well as that of such writers as Olive Schreiner, Wilkie Collins and H. Rider Haggard, whose work has recently attracted new attention from scholars and students. The collection combines the literary study of the novel as a form with analysis of the material aspects of its readership and production, and a series of thematic and contextual perspectives that examine Victorian fiction in the light of social and cultural concerns relevant both to the period itself and to the direction of current literary and cultural studies. Contributors engage with topics such as industrial culture, religion and science and the broader issues of the politics of gender, sexuality and race. The Companion includes a chronology and a comprehensive guide to further reading.
Author | : Francis O'Gorman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2010-01-21 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0521886996 |
Stimulating and informative new essays on many aspects of nineteenth-century culture.
Author | : Leslie Howsam |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 1107023734 |
An accessible and wide-ranging study of the history of the book within local, national and global contexts.
Author | : Adrian Poole |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 481 |
Release | : 2009-12-10 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139828118 |
In this Companion, leading scholars and critics address the work of the most celebrated and enduring novelists from the British Isles (excluding living writers): among them Defoe, Richardson, Sterne, Austen, Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Hardy, James, Lawrence, Joyce, and Woolf. The significance of each writer in their own time is explained, the relation of their work to that of predecessors and successors explored, and their most important novels analysed. These essays do not aim to create a canon in a prescriptive way, but taken together they describe a strong developing tradition of the writing of fictional prose over the past 300 years. This volume is a helpful guide for those studying and teaching the novel, and will allow readers to consider the significance of less familiar authors such as Henry Green and Elizabeth Bowen alongside those with a more established place in literary history.
Author | : David Paroissien |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2008-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0470691220 |
A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
Author | : Joanne Shattock |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 347 |
Release | : 2010-01-28 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521882885 |
A volume of essays on Victorian themes, genres and authors, aimed at students and lecturers.