Charles Dickens In Context

Author : Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011-06-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521887007

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Charles Dickens in Context by Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux Pdf

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 : Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 405 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : English literature
ISBN : 1139079301

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Charles Dickens in Context by Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1854
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10929487

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Hard Times by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Andrew Sanders,Ian Q. Whishaw
Publisher : Springer
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1982-09-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349168699

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Charles Dickens Resurrectionist by Andrew Sanders,Ian Q. Whishaw Pdf

Author : Wilkie Collins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11188189

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The Frozen Deep and Other Stories by Wilkie Collins Pdf

Author : Andrew Sanders
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-04-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0199556091

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Authors in Context: Charles Dickens by Andrew Sanders Pdf

Charles Dickens explores the work of the most popular author of his age in relation to the contradictory impulses of Victorian society, looking at the vital interconnection between his life and his art. His novels resonate well beyond his own age and continue to be recontextualized on the stage, on film, and on television.

Author : Gary L. Colledge
Publisher : Baker Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2012-06-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441237781

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God and Charles Dickens by Gary L. Colledge Pdf

Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.

Author : Sean Grass
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-05-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317168218

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Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend by Sean Grass Pdf

Even within the context of Charles Dickens's history as a publishing innovator, Our Mutual Friend is notable for what it reveals about Dickens as an author and about Victorian publishing. Marking Dickens's return to the monthly number format after nearly a decade of writing fiction designed for weekly publication in All the Year Round, Our Mutual Friend emerged against the backdrop of his failing health, troubled relationship with Ellen Ternan, and declining reputation among contemporary critics. In his subtly argued publishing history, Sean Grass shows how these difficulties combined to make Our Mutual Friend an extraordinarily odd novel, no less in its contents and unusually heavy revisions than in its marketing by Chapman and Hall, its transformation from a serial into British and U.S. book editions, its contemporary reception by readers and reviewers, and its delightfully uneven reputation among critics in the 150 years since Dickens’s death. Enhanced by four appendices that offer contemporary accounts of the Staplehurst railway accident, information on archival materials, transcripts of all of the contemporary reviews, and a select bibliography of editions, Grass’s book shows why this last of Dickens’s finished novels continues to intrigue its readers and critics.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781607108726

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Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

No library's complete without the classics! This new edition collects the greatest works of Charles Dickens, one of the most popular novelists of all time. Oliver Twist. Pip. The ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future. The characters of Charles Dickens live on in our imaginations long after we've read his renowned works of social commentary and vivid storytelling. And though these novels were written more than one hundred years ago, no home library today would be complete without them. This Canterbury Classics edition of Charles Dickens collects some of his most famous and beloved works--The Adventures of Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations--into a single volume. For those who've never read Dickens, it's the perfect opportunity to experience his unique and compelling writing. And for those who are already Dickens devotees, an introduction by a renowned scholar will provide additional context and food for thought.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Cities and towns
ISBN : 9781105116193

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A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens Pdf

A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas when three ghostly visitors review his past and foretell his future.

Author : Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-08-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781451617252

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Grave Expectations by Sherri Browning Erwin,Charles Dickens Pdf

Heaven knows, we need never be ashamed of our wolfish cravings. . . . Bristly, sensitive, and meat-hungry Pip is a robust young whelp, an orphan born under a full moon. Between hunting escaped convicts alongside zombified soldiers, trying not to become one of the hunted himself, and hiding his hairy hands from the supernaturally beautiful and haughty Estella, whose devilish moods keep him chomping at the bit, Pip is sure he will die penniless or a convict like the rest of his commonly uncommon kind. But then a mysterious benefactor sends him to London for the finest werewolf education money can buy. In the company of other furry young gentlemen, Pip tempers his violent transformations and devours the secrets of his dark world. When he discovers that his beloved Estella is a slayer of supernatural creatures, trained by the corpse-like vampire Miss Havisham, Pip’s desire for her grows stronger than his midnight hunger for rare fresh beef. But can he risk his hide for a truth that will make Estella his forever—or will she drive one last silver stake through his heart?

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1842
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BCUL:1092001124

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The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Frank T. Sir Marzials
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2022-09-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547340751

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Life of Charles Dickens by Frank T. Sir Marzials Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Life of Charles Dickens" by Frank T. Sir Marzials. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Norbert Lennartz,Dieter Koch
Publisher : V&R Unipress
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 3847102869

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Texts, Contexts and Intertextuality by Norbert Lennartz,Dieter Koch Pdf

While Dickens used to be seen as a writer of shallow and sentimental children's literature, as the prolific caterer to the new market of mass literature, this collection of essays shows that Dickens was not only a reader of high-brow literature, but also expected his readers to understand them in the context of contemporary scientific and economic debates. Covering a wide range of writers - from Sidney, Shakespeare, Cervantes to Swift, Smollett and Bulwer-Lytton - Dickens's novels reveal a multi-layered cosmos and supply their readers with richly woven nets of intertextuality.

Author : Robert C. Evans,Salem Press
Publisher : Salem Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09
Category : City and town life in literature
ISBN : 1642659924

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Critical Insights: a Tale of Two Cities by Robert C. Evans,Salem Press Pdf

A Tale of Two Cities has long been valued as one of Charles Dickens's most important and fascinating novels. This volume explores the novel from various deliberately diverse perspectives, setting it in historical, critical, and aesthetic contexts and examining how its impact has been kept alive to the present day.