The Stature of Dickens
Author : Joseph Gold
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9780802000149
Author : Joseph Gold
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 13,25 MB
Release : 1971
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ISBN : 9780802000149
Author : Joseph Gold
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Joseph Gold (Bibliographer.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 34,10 MB
Release : 1971
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Author : Joseph Gold
Publisher : Published for University of Manitoba Press by University of Toronto Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 33,40 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Reference
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Author : James Russell Kincaid
Publisher : Oxford : Clarendon Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,48 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Humor
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Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important is Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.
Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 17,29 MB
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 9781571133175
Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, he was resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a new breed of literary theorists who fault his chauvinism and imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised, however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early 21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Author : Gary Colledge
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1587433206
Explores the Christian convictions Charles Dickens held and displayed in his work, bringing the vital faith of an important and vastly popular writer to life.
Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 840 pages
File Size : 14,8 MB
Release : 1880*
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Author : William J. Palmer
Publisher : Diversion Books
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2015-04-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1626817340
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins reveal the darker side of Victorian London—and a killer’s identity—in this “well-crafted adventure” (Publishers Weekly). Charles Dickens is smitten with Ellen Ternan, a teenage actress, and heads to the country to retrieve her from the home for fallen women run by Angela Burdett-Coutts—who also owns one of England’s largest banks and has recently received an anonymous threatening note. Back in London, Dickens and his fellow writer Wilkie Collins give the note to Inspector Field. But more urgent worries are to come. Both men’s paramours—the actress as well as a former prostitute—have been attending Women’s Emancipation Society meetings. When a young feminist is found fatally strangled at the scene of a robbery at Coutts Bank, Ellen, whose scarf was the murder weapon, is arrested. And it is up to Dickens to clear her name—hopefully without sullying his own, since at the time of the killing, the two were together in a hotel room . . . “The story offers not only a mystery but also a look at some of the more prurient aspects of nineteenth-century London society . . . Atmospheric and cunningly plotted . . . Absorbing.” —Booklist
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Library of Esse
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435116481
On a blustery winter afternoon in 1840, crowds flooded the docks of the New York and Boston harbors. For months, Victorian audiences had followed the orphan Little Nell's adventures in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop as she and her beloved grandfather fled the moral and material ravages of London and the machinations of the villainous dwarf, Quilp. Calling wildly to the English ship carrying the next installment of The Old Curiosity Shop, the devoted readers breathlessly demanded the fate of the novel's heroine. For today's reader, The Old Curiosity Shop not only illustrates a poverty that looks uncannily familiar, but forges a heroism from the small acts of caring that make modern life meaningful. The most popular of Dickens' novels in his lifetime, it remains both a page-turner and a masterpiece.