The Symbolism of Crime in Dickens's Novels
Author : Patricia Ann Best
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Release : 1979
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Author : Patricia Ann Best
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Release : 1979
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Author : Philip Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 25,49 MB
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1349235458
'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.
Author : Patricia Ann Best
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Page : 626 pages
File Size : 21,24 MB
Release : 1979
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Author : Robert Barnard
Publisher : Bergen : Universitetsforlaget ; New York : Humanities Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 36,8 MB
Release : 1974
Category : English language
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Author : N M Lary
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1134544626
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.
Author : Martin Priestman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 36,25 MB
Release : 2003-11-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521008716
This Companion 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 the 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.
Author : Claire Harman
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 16,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-04
Category : True Crime
ISBN : 0525436154
Early on the morning of May 6, 1840, the elderly Lord William Russell was found in his London house with his throat so deeply cut that his head was nearly severed. The crime soon had everyone, including Queen Victoria, feverishly speculating about motives and methods. But when the prime suspect claimed to have been inspired by a sensational crime novel, it sent shock waves through literary London and drew both Dickens and Thackeray into the fray. Could a novel really lead someone to kill? In Murder by the Book, Claire Harman blends a riveting true-crime whodunit with a fascinating account of the rise of the popular novel and the early battle for its soul among the most famous writers of the day.
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Publisher : Cambria Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 17,26 MB
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ISBN : 1621968669
Author : Philip Collins
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Page : 371 pages
File Size : 39,84 MB
Release : 1974
Category : Crime in literature
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Author : Charles Dickens
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Page : 104 pages
File Size : 21,87 MB
Release : 2021-04-21
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The Chimes A Goblin Story of Some Bells that Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In, a short novel by Charles Dickens, was written and published in 1844, one year after A Christmas Carol. It is the second in his series of Christmas books five short books with strong social and moral messages that he published during the 1840's.