The Imagined World of Charles Dickens
Author : Mildred Newcomb
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Imagination in literature
ISBN : 0814204821
Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change
Author : Joachim Frenk
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 23,26 MB
Release : 2019-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1501736299
Book Description
Sixteen scholars from across the globe come together in Charles Dickens as an Agent of Change to show how Dickens was (and still is) the consummate change agent. His works, bursting with restless energy in the Inimitable's protean style, registered and commented on the ongoing changes in the Victorian world while the Victorians' fictional and factional worlds kept (and keep) changing. The essays from notable Dickens scholars—Malcolm Andrews, Matthias Bauer, Joel J. Brattin, Doris Feldmann, Herbert Foltinek, Robert Heaman, Michael Hollington, Bert Hornback, Norbert Lennartz, Chris Louttit, Jerome Meckier, Nancy Aycock Metz, David Paroissien, Christopher Pittard, and Robert Tracy—suggest the many ways in which the notion of change has found entry into and is negotiated in Dickens' works through four aspects: social change, political and ideological change, literary change, and cultural change. An afterword by the late Edgar Rosenberg adds a personal account of how Dickens changed the life of one eminent Dickensian.
Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London
Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 38,28 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547395744
Book Description
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Social Dreaming
Author : Elaine Ostry
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 35,30 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1136716939
Book Description
Dickens was known for his incredible imagination and fiery social protest. In Social Dreaming , Elaine Ostry examines how these two qualities are linked through Dickens's use of the fairy tale, a genre that infuses his work. To many Victorians, the fairy tale was not childish: it promoted the imagination and fancy in a materialistic, utilitarian world. It was a way of criticizing society so that everyone could understand. Like Charles Perrault and the Brothers Grimm, Dickens used the fairy tale to promote his ideology. In this first book length study of Dickens's use of the fairy tale as a social tool, Elaine Ostry applies exciting new criticism by Jack Zipes and Maria Tatar, among others, that examines the fairy tale in a socio-historical light to Dickens's major works but also his periodicals-the most popular middle-class publications in Victorian times.
Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves
Author : Malcolm Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2007-11-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0199236208
Book Description
Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.
Vampire Forensics
Author : Mark Collins Jenkins
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 26,26 MB
Release : 2010-02-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1426206666
Book Description
Mark Jenkins’s engrossing history draws on the latest science, anthropological and archaeological research to explore the origins of vampire stories, providing gripping historic and folkloric context for the concept of immortal beings who defy death by feeding on the lifeblood of others. From the earliest whispers of eternal evil in ancient Mesopotamia, Greece, and Rome, vampire tales flourished through the centuries and around the globe, fueled by superstition, sexual mystery, fear of disease and death, and the nagging anxiety that demons lurk everywhere. In Vampire Forensics, Mark Jenkins probes vampire legend to tease out the historical truths enshrined in the tales of terror: sherds of Persian pottery depicting blood-sucking demons; the amazing recent discovery by National Geographic archaeologist Matteo Borrini of a 16th-century Venetian grave of a plague victim and suspected vampire; and the Transylvanian castle of "Vlad the Impaler," whose bloodthirsty cruelty remains unsurpassed. Jenkins navigates centuries of lore and legend, adding new chapters to the chronicle and weaving an irresistibly seductive blend of superstition, psychology, and science sure to engross everyone from Anne Rice’s countless readers to serious students of archaeology and mythology.
Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Author : Anne Thackeray Ritchie
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 29,74 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : 0814206387
Book Description
Peopled with literary figures such as Tennyson, Trollope, Browning, George Eliot, Henry James and Virginia Woolf, this book provides Anne Thackeray Ritchie's complete journals written in 1864-65 and 1878, an ample selection of her most interesting letters and a number of significant letters written to her. Because only a third of each journal has been previously published, this collection presents a valuable document of Ritchie's inner life, especially the account of her response to her father's death.
Charles Dickens's American Audience
Author : Robert McParland
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 36,29 MB
Release : 2011-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0739118587
Book Description
From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together contemporary reactions to Dickens and his works, this book paints a portrait of the American people and of American society and culture from 1837 to the turn of the twentieth century. It is in this view of nineteenth-century America--its people and their values, their reading habits and cultural views, the scenarios of their everyday lives even in the face of the drastic changes of the emerging nation--that Charles Dickens's American Audience makes its greatest impact.
Dickens
Author : Michael Rosen
Publisher :
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780744586404
Book Description
A highly accessible, informative and gloriously illustrated biography of Charles Dickens. A look at the life and work of one of our greatest novelists, including his early career, his performances, the great social and political upheavals of his time, and an examination of four of his best-known novels, with a particular focus on Great Expectations.; Follow-up to Shakespeare: His Work and His World.
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity
Author : Rodney H. Jones
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 557 pages
File Size : 45,48 MB
Release : 2015-09-08
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1317439961
Book Description
The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity provides an introduction to and survey of a wide range of perspectives on the relationship between language and creativity. Defining this complex and multifaceted field, this book introduces a conceptual framework through which the various definitions of language and creativity can be explored. Divided into four parts, it covers: different aspects of language and creativity, including dialogue, metaphor and humour literary creativity, including narrative and poetry multimodal and multimedia creativity, in areas such as music, graffiti and the internet creativity in language teaching and learning. With over 30 chapters written by a group of leading academics from around the world, The Routledge Handbook of Language and Creativity will serve as an important reference for students and scholars in the fields of English language studies, applied linguistics, education, and communication studies.
