The New Oxford Illustrated Dickens: Sketches by Boz
Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 828 pages
File Size : 31,54 MB
Release : 1947
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 824 pages
File Size : 21,2 MB
Release : 1998
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 12,94 MB
Release : 1948
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Author : Boz
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 22,83 MB
Release : 1997-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521573556
The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality. But while nineteenth-century reviewers praised Dickens as the pre-eminent novelist of the family, any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured families. Catherine Waters offers an explanation of this discrepancy through an examination of Dickens's representation of the family in relation to nineteenth-century constructions of class and gender. Drawing upon feminist and new historicist methodologies, and focusing upon the normalising function of middle-class domestic ideology, Waters concludes that Dickens's novels record a shift in notions of the family away from an earlier stress upon the importance of lineage and blood towards a new ideal of domesticity assumed to be the natural form of the family.
Author : John Gross
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 17,6 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134544340
The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which have been neglected in recent years, such as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.
Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 688 pages
File Size : 46,41 MB
Release : 1963
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 856 pages
File Size : 50,86 MB
Release : 1954
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Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 29,97 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1351944479
Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several European and American cities, the most significant city for Dickens was London, the city he knew as a boy in the 1820s and which developed in his lifetime to become the finance and imperial capital of the nineteenth-century. His sense of London as monumental and fashionable, modern and anachronistic, has generated a large number of writings and critical approaches: Marxist, sociological, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. Dickens looks at the city from several aspects: as a place bringing together poverty and riches; as the place of the new and of chance and coincidence, and of secret lives exposed by the special figure of the detective. Another crucial area of study is the relationship of the city to women, and women's place in the city, as well as the way Dickens's London matches up with other visual representations. This anthology of criticism surveys the field and is a major contribution to the study of cities, city culture, modernity and Dickens. It brings together key previously published articles and essays and features a comprehensive bibliography of work which scholars can continue to explore.
Author : Paul Schlicke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,99 MB
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1317233360
First published in 1985. Dickens was a vigorous champion of the right of all men and women to carefree amusements and dedicated himself to the creation of imaginative pleasure. This book represents the first extended study of this vital aspect of Dickens’ life and work, exploring how he channelled his love of entertainment into his artistry. This study offers a challenging reassessment of Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop and Hard Times. It shows the importance of entertainment to Dickens’ journalism and presents an illuminating perspective on the public readings which dominated the last twelve years of his life. This book will be of interest to students of literature.