The Symbolism of Crime in Dickens's Novels
Author : Patricia Ann Best
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,72 MB
Release : 1979
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Dickens and Crime
Author : Philip Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 19,85 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349235458
Book Description
'One of the best social commentators on Dickens...models of historical scholarship.'- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York. This classic of Dickens criticism, now in its third edition, provides a fascinating insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime. Extraordinary in character, as well as literary skill, he displayed a shrewd insight into the criminal character, whilst demanding tough penalties for those who broke the law. At one stage attracted to a career as a metropolitan magistrate, Dickens turned instead to fiction and discovered there an outlet for his enduring fascination with the darker side of human nature. Thieves, cheats and murderers people the pages of his novels, few of which are without some serious crime. But the treatment of crime for Dickens was far more than an authorial device: it was a focal point for his deep concern with social problems and played a vital role in his attempt to understand these ills. Dickens and Crime continues to be one of the most significant and illuminating studies into Dickens's creative imagination, and its reappearance in print will be warmly welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.
The Symbolism of Crime in Dicken's Novels
Author : Patricia Ann Best
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 35,35 MB
Release : 1979
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Imagery and Theme in the Novels of Dickens
Author : Robert Barnard
Publisher : Bergen : Universitetsforlaget ; New York : Humanities Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 47,84 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
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Dickens and Crime
Author : Philip Collins
Publisher :
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 41,18 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Crime in literature
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Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence (RLE Dickens)
Author : N M Lary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134544626
Book Description
What did Dickens mean to Dostoevsky, and what did the Russian writer owe to England’s greatest entertainer? Many of Dickens’ readers, including George Gissing and Edmund Wilson, have recognized that his achievement needs to be compared with Dostoevsky’s, and they have suspected, or assumed an influence. N M Lary’s book shows what the literary influence really or probably was.
Narrating the Prison: Role and Representation in Charles Dickens' Novels, Twentieth-Century Fiction, and Film
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 15,46 MB
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ISBN : 1621968669
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The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,57 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107494508
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Crime Fiction covers British and American crime fiction from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. As well as discussing the detective fiction of writers like Arthur Conan Doyle, Agatha Christie and Raymond Chandler, it considers other kinds of fiction where crime plays a substantial part, such as the thriller and spy fiction. It also includes chapters on the treatment of crime in eighteenth-century literature, French and Victorian fiction, women and black detectives, crime on film and TV, police fiction and postmodernist uses of the detective form. The collection, by an international team of established specialists, offers students invaluable reference material including a chronology and guides to further reading. The volume aims to ensure that its readers will be grounded in the history of crime fiction and its critical reception.
The Death Penalty in Dickens and Derrida
Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 25,70 MB
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1350354589
Book Description
In the nineteenth century, Charles Dickens backed the cause of abolition of the death penalty and wrote comprehensively about it, in public letters and in his novels. At the end of the twentieth century, Jacques Derrida ran two years of seminars on the subject, which were published posthumously. What the novelist and the philosopher of deconstruction discussed independently, this book brings into comparison. Tambling examines crime and punishment in Dickens's novels Barnaby Rudge, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist and Bleak House and explores those who influenced Dickens's work, including Hogarth, Fielding, Godwin and Edgar Allen Poe. This book also looks at those who influenced Derrida – Freud, Nietzsche, Foucault and Blanchot – and considers Derrida's study on terrorism and the USA as the only major democracy adhering to the death penalty. A comprehensive study of punishment in Dickens, and furthering Derrida's insights by commenting on Shakespeare and blood, revenge, the French Revolution, and the enduring power of violence and its fascination, this book is a major contribution to literary criticism on Dickens and Derrida. Those interested in literature, criminology, law, gender, and psychoanalysis will find it an essential intervention in a topic still rousing intense argument.
Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
Author : Ian Ward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 45,10 MB
Release : 2014-11-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 178225370X
Book Description
The Victorians worried about many things, prominent among their worries being the 'condition' of England and the 'question' of its women. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England revisits these particular anxieties, concentrating more closely upon four 'crimes' which generated especial concern amongst contemporaries: adultery, bigamy, infanticide and prostitution. Each engaged questions of sexuality and its regulation, legal, moral and cultural, for which reason each attracted the considerable interest not just of lawyers and parliamentarians, but also novelists and poets and perhaps most importantly those who, in ever-larger numbers, liked to pass their leisure hours reading about sex and crime. Alongside statutes such as the 1857 Matrimonial Causes Act and the 1864 Contagious Diseases Act, Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England contemplates those texts which shaped Victorian attitudes towards England's 'condition' and the 'question' of its women: the novels of Dickens, Thackeray and Eliot, the works of sensationalists such as Ellen Wood and Mary Braddon, and the poetry of Gabriel and Christina Rossetti. Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England is a richly contextual commentary on a critical period in the evolution of modern legal and cultural attitudes to the relation of crime, sexuality and the family.
