Author: Juliet John
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199261376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
Dickens's Villains
Author: Juliet John
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199261376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780199261376
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
The Textual Life of Dickens's Characters
Author: James A. Davies
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book interprets a number of Dickens' works through the detailed analysis of a single characterization in each. It is mainly concerned with the textual functions of characters, i.e., with how analyses of Dickens's methods of characterization help us understand what characters do within his texts. The author presents a selective variety of major and minor characters. Included are examples from the three main periods of Dickens's career, from his non-fiction as well as fiction, and from the combination of both that is Sketches by Boz. There is an emphasis on the later books and particularly on Our Mutual Friend. Contents: IntroductionóSome Sketches by Boz; Modifying SummariesóThe Fat Boy in The Pickwick Papers; Young Bailey in Martin Chuzzlewit; Gaffer Hexam in Our Mutual Friend; NarratorsóSome Epistolary Personae; The Troubled Traveler in Pictures From Italy; The Sentimental Paternalist in A Christmas Carol; Extending the Interface: The Third Narrator in Bleak House; The Middle-aged Businessman: The Narrator of Great Expectations; Sexism and Class Bias: The Narrator of Our Mutual Friend; Two Re-readersóKnowing What Happens in Our Mutual Friend; Droodiana and The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Characterisation and Ideas in Little Dorrit: Clennam and Calvinism; Characterisation and Structure: John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend; Story and Text.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 9780389205883
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
This book interprets a number of Dickens' works through the detailed analysis of a single characterization in each. It is mainly concerned with the textual functions of characters, i.e., with how analyses of Dickens's methods of characterization help us understand what characters do within his texts. The author presents a selective variety of major and minor characters. Included are examples from the three main periods of Dickens's career, from his non-fiction as well as fiction, and from the combination of both that is Sketches by Boz. There is an emphasis on the later books and particularly on Our Mutual Friend. Contents: IntroductionóSome Sketches by Boz; Modifying SummariesóThe Fat Boy in The Pickwick Papers; Young Bailey in Martin Chuzzlewit; Gaffer Hexam in Our Mutual Friend; NarratorsóSome Epistolary Personae; The Troubled Traveler in Pictures From Italy; The Sentimental Paternalist in A Christmas Carol; Extending the Interface: The Third Narrator in Bleak House; The Middle-aged Businessman: The Narrator of Great Expectations; Sexism and Class Bias: The Narrator of Our Mutual Friend; Two Re-readersóKnowing What Happens in Our Mutual Friend; Droodiana and The Mystery of Edwin Drood; Characterisation and Ideas in Little Dorrit: Clennam and Calvinism; Characterisation and Structure: John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend; Story and Text.
Charles Dickens
Author: G. K. Chesterton
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840225624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781840225624
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This Is A New Release Of The Original 1907 Edition.
Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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Languages : en
Pages : 546
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The Writings of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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Languages : en
Pages : 518
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The Writings of Charles Dickens: The posthumous papers of the Pickwick club
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Languages : en
Pages : 582
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Outlooks on Society, Literature and Politics
Author: Edwin Percy Whipple
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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Category : Slavery
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy
Author: Joshua Gooch
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137525517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137525517
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 233
Book Description
This book offers a much-needed study of the Victorian novel's role in representing and shaping the service sector's emergence. Arguing that prior accounts of the novel's relation to the rise of finance have missed the emergence of a wider service sector, it traces the effects of service work's many forms and class positions in the Victorian novel.
Sex, Crime and Literature in Victorian England
Author: Ian Ward
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178225370X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 178225370X
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 189
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.
The Life & Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The life and loves of Nicholas, the orphaned son of a bankrupt man, form the basis of this complex novel based on the author's recurrent theme of rising from poverty.
Publisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853262647
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 806
Book Description
The life and loves of Nicholas, the orphaned son of a bankrupt man, form the basis of this complex novel based on the author's recurrent theme of rising from poverty.