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Kathryn Chittick examines the early career of Charles Dickens in light of the movements in literary criticism and the rise of the novel and Victorian literary canon.
Author : Kathryn Chittick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 27,24 MB
Release : 1990-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521381746
Kathryn Chittick examines the early career of Charles Dickens in light of the movements in literary criticism and the rise of the novel and Victorian literary canon.
Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 36,72 MB
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107377498
Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.
Author : Louis Cazamian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 16,27 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135027749
This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.
Author : Louis Cazamian
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 MB
Release : 2009
Category : English fiction
ISBN : 9780415482387
A translation of Louis Cazamian's classic survey of Victorian social fiction. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes.
Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 165 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 0547395744
The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Author : Nicola Bown
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 2004-02-05
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780521810159
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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 775 pages
File Size : 29,17 MB
Release : 2021-05-04
Category :
ISBN :
A Child's History of England, a charming survey of the story of the Sceptred Isle from the time of the Romans through the 1830s. Simply written but wide-ranging, it's a delightful read for Dickens devotees. British author CHARLES DICKENS (1812-1870) remains one of the most popular writers in the world. A spinner of stories of satire and social criticism-including Great Expectations, Nicholas Nickleby, A Tale of Two Cities, A Christmas Carol, and the work considered his greatest, David Copperfield-his writings have entertained generations of readers and influenced generations of writers.
Author : Louis Cazamian
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 393 pages
File Size : 46,78 MB
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1135027730
This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 20,52 MB
Release : 2020-10-15
Category :
ISBN :
★★★About★★★ Oliver Twist; or, the Parish Boy's Progress is Charles Dickens's second novel, and was first published as a serial 1837-39.[1] The story centres on orphan Oliver Twist, born in a workhouse and sold into apprenticeship with an undertaker. After escaping, Oliver travels to London, where he meets "The Artful Dodger", a member of a gang of juvenile pickpockets led by the elderly criminal, Fagin. Oliver Twist is notable for its unromantic portrayal by Dickens of criminals and their sordid lives, as well as for exposing the cruel treatment of the many orphans in London in the mid-19th century.[2] The alternative title, The Parish Boy's Progress, alludes to Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, as well as the 18th-century caricature series by William Hogarth, A Rake's Progress and A Harlot's Progress.[3] In this early example of the social novel, Dickens satirises the hypocrisies of his time, including child labour, the recruitment of children as criminals, and the presence of street children. The novel may have been inspired by the story of Robert Blincoe, an orphan whose account of working as a child labourer in a cotton mill was widely read in the 1830s. It is likely that Dickens's own youthful experiences contributed as well. Oliver Twist has been the subject of numerous adaptations for various media, including a highly successful musical play, Oliver!, and the multiple Academy Award-winning 1968 motion picture. Disney also put its spin on the novel with the animated film called Oliver & Company in 1988
Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 22,72 MB
Release : 2013
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674072235
This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.