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Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

M. Andrews
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Author : M. Andrews
Publisher : Springer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1994-03-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230377998

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Dickens and the Grown-Up Child by M. Andrews Pdf

The child who stops growing, infantile senility, the 'old-fashioned' child, child-wives and child-mothers, the rejuvenated adult - Dickens's writings parade before us a gallery of bizarre hybrids. Dickens and the Grown-up Child focuses on the complicated and unresolved relationship between childhood and adulthood in Dickens's fictional and non-fictional work. In challenging the familiar view that the source of such anomalies lies in Dickens's own childhood experiences, Malcolm Andrews explores the extent to which Dickens was heir to an older cultural debate about primitivism and progressivism, a debate which Dickens adapted to his own preoccupations with the tensions between childhood and maturity. In examining these issues, Malcolm Andrews concentrates on the fiction of Dickens's middle years, particularly David Copperfield, and on some of the journalistic essays.

A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield

Richard J. Dunn
A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Charles Dickens s David Copperfield Book PDF

Author : Richard J. Dunn
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0415275423

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A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield by Richard J. Dunn Pdf

Whether read from beginning to end or used as a reference tool, this sourcebook reveals the varied life of 'David Copperfield' in the hands of generations of readers, critics and adaptors, and introduces the work in its social, biographical and literary contexts.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
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Author : Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151203

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Dickens and the Imagined Child by Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters Pdf

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Dickens and the Imagined Child Book PDF

Author : Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151210

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Dickens and the Imagined Child by Peter Merchant,Catherine Waters Pdf

The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.

Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

K. Boehm
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Author : K. Boehm
Publisher : Springer
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137362506

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Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood by K. Boehm Pdf

This book takes a fresh look at childhood in Dickens' works and in Victorian science and culture more generally. It offers a new way of understanding Dickens' interest in childhood by showing how his fascination with new scientific ideas about childhood and practices of scientific inquiry shaped his narrative techniques and aesthetic imagination.

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

John O. Jordan
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Author : John O. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521669642

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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens by John O. Jordan Pdf

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.

Liminal Dickens

Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
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Author : Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781443893992

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Liminal Dickens by Valerie Kennedy,Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou Pdf

Liminal Dickens is a collection of essays which cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens’s writings: the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death. Although a great deal of attention has been paid to the family in Dickens’s works, relatively little has been said about his representations of these moments and ceremonies. Similarly, although there have been discussions of Dickens’s religious beliefs, neither his views on death and dying nor his ideas about the afterlife have been analysed in any great detail. Moreover, this collection, arising from a conference on Dickens held in Thessaloniki in 2012, explores how Dickens’s preoccupation with these transitional phases reflects his own liminality and his varying positions regarding some main Victorian concerns, such as religion, social institutions, progress, and modes of writing. The book is composed of four parts: Part One concerns Dickens’s tendency to see birth and death as part of a continuum rather than as entirely separate states; Part Two looks at his unconventional responses to adolescence as a transitional period and to the marriage ceremony as an often unsuccessful rite de passage; Part Three analyses his partial divergence from certain widely held Victorian views about progress, evolution, sanitation, and the provisions made for the poor; and Part Four focuses on two of his novels which are seen as transgressing conventional genre boundaries.

The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens

Paul Schlicke
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Author : Paul Schlicke
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 705 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-03
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780199640188

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The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens by Paul Schlicke Pdf

This anniversary edition of the Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens celebrates 200 years since the birth of one of Britain's most popular authors. Covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context in over 500 A-Z articles, this is the most reliable and accessible reference work on Dickens available

The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens

Peter Cook
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Author : Peter Cook
Publisher : Springer
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319967912

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The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens by Peter Cook Pdf

This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to express his responses to the exponential growth of post-revolutionary industrial, technological culture and its effects on personal life and relationships. In this close study of Dickensian Romanticism, Cook demonstrates the enduring relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.

The Dickens Industry

Laurence W. Mazzeno
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Author : Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher : Camden House
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : History
ISBN : 1571133178

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The Dickens Industry by Laurence W. Mazzeno Pdf

Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, he was resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a new breed of literary theorists who fault his chauvinism and imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised, however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early 21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.

CHARLES DICKENS 200

Andrew C. Rouse,Michael Hollington,Géza Maráczi,A. D. Townsend,Anna Kérchy,Gabriella Hartvig,Ian Keable,Mária Kurdi,József Andor,Rudolf Nyári
CHARLES DICKENS 200 Book PDF

Author : Andrew C. Rouse,Michael Hollington,Géza Maráczi,A. D. Townsend,Anna Kérchy,Gabriella Hartvig,Ian Keable,Mária Kurdi,József Andor,Rudolf Nyári
Publisher : SPECHEL
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789630894579

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CHARLES DICKENS 200 by Andrew C. Rouse,Michael Hollington,Géza Maráczi,A. D. Townsend,Anna Kérchy,Gabriella Hartvig,Ian Keable,Mária Kurdi,József Andor,Rudolf Nyári Pdf

Charles Dickens 200: Text and Beyond: a commemorative volume is the second volume in the new SPECHEL e-ditions series. It commemorates the two-hundredth anniversary of Dickens’s birth, and for the purpose brings together, in addition to ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ Dickensians, a curious variety of experts from a miscellany of areas of expertise ranging from folksinger to linguist and even magician. The chapters approach Charles Dickens from musical aspects ranging from opera to music-hall song and street ballad, from his role as a family conjuror, to psychological analyses of various of his characters and linguistic analysis of his style. He is regarded through the prism of the Irish literary scene but also through the eye of the Hungarian translator of his work, through operatic and photographic adaptations of his subject-matter. Every new chapter produces an exciting and unexpected new facet of the author, whose birth the volume celebrates.

The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century

Pete Newbon
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Author : Pete Newbon
Publisher : Springer
Page : 357 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781137408143

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The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century by Pete Newbon Pdf

This book explores the evolution of male writers marked by peculiar traits of childlike immaturity. The ‘Boy-Man’ emerged from the nexus of Rousseau’s counter-Enlightenment cultural primitivism, Sensibility’s ‘Man of Feeling’, the Chattertonian poet maudit, and the Romantic idealisation of childhood. The Romantic era saw the proliferation of boy-men, who congregated around such metropolitan institutions as The London Magazine. These included John Keats, Leigh Hunt, Charles Lamb, Hartley Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Thomas Hood. In the period of the French Revolution, terms of childishness were used against such writers as Wordsworth, Keats, Hunt and Lamb as a tool of political satire. Yet boy-men writers conversely used their amphibian child-adult literary personae to critique the masculinist ideologies of their era. However, the growing cultural and political conservatism of the nineteenth century, and the emergence of a canon of serious literature, inculcated the relegation of the boy-men from the republic of letters.

Dickens and Modernity

Juliet John
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Author : Juliet John
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843843269

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Dickens and Modernity by Juliet John Pdf

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches out beyond the Victorianperiod. Yet what is the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to Dickens - Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs commerce - are false, by exploring the diversity and multiplicity of Dickens's textual and extra-textual lives. A specially commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of Dickens. Like the volume as a whole, it asks us toconsider the nature of our connection with "this quintessentially Victorian writer" and what it is about Dickens that still appeals to people around the world. Professor Juliet John holds the Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Jay Clayton, Holly Furneaux, John Drew, Michaela Mahlberg, Juliet John, Michael Hollington, Joss Marsh, Carrie Sickmann, Kim Edwardes Keates, DominicRainsford, Florian Schweizer

Knowing Dickens

Rosemarie Bodenheimer
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Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801467011

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Knowing Dickens by Rosemarie Bodenheimer Pdf

In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself—the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions—and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Charles Dickens in Context

Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
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Author : Sally Ledger,Holly Furneaux
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 45,5 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.