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Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1932
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : UOM:39015046352640
Author : Charles C. Osborne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1494045869
This is a new release of the original 1932 edition.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Novelists, English
ISBN : OCLC:1413388801
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1952
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1154903182
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 495 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199591411
The nearest we can get to a Dickens autobiography, these letters give us unique insights into his life, and are essential reading for Dickens fans everywhere. Whether you dip in or read straight through, this selection of his letters creates afresh the brilliance of being Dickens, and the sheer pleasure of being in his company.
Author : Angela Georgina Burdett-Coutts
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1922
Category : Rare books
ISBN : MINN:319510014905588
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1953
Category : Charity
ISBN : IND:32000003498112
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : New York : Farrar, Straus and Cudahy. 1960
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Authors
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005290999
Author : Charles Dickens,Madeline House
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 946 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0198126174
This volume presents 1,592 letters, 668 of them previously unpublished, for the years 1850 to 1852. This was a time of great activity for Dickens, who completed the serial publication of David Copperfield, began work on Bleak House, successfully established the weekly Household Words (in which his own serial A Child's History of England appeared), and wrote about 100 articles and stories for the journal, including many uncollected pieces. In April 1851 he and Sir Edward Bulwer Lytton founded the Guild of Literature and Art, a scheme to help writers and artists. He also suffered a number of personal blows: the deaths of his father, his baby daughter Dora, and two of his close friends, Richard Watson and Alfred D'Orsay; there was also anxiety over the illness of his wife Catherine.
Author : Christopher Bischof
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9780198833352
Teaching Britain examines teachers as key agents in the production of social knowledge. Teachers in nineteenth century Britain claimed intimate knowledge of everyday life among the poor and working class at home, and non-white subjects abroad. They mobilized their knowledge in a wide range of media, from accounts of local happenings in their schools' official log books to travel narratives based on summer trips around Britain and the wider world. Teachers also obsessively narrated and reflected on their own careers. Through these stories and the work they did every day, teachers imagined and helped to enact new models of professionalism, attitudes towards poverty and social mobility, ways of thinking about race and empire, and roles for the state. As highly visible agents of the state and beneficiaries of new state-funded opportunities, teachers also represented the largesse and the reach of the liberal state - but also the limits of both.
Author : Paul Vallely
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-09-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472920140
The super-rich are silently and secretly shaping our world. In this groundbreaking exploration of historical and contemporary philanthropy, bestselling author Paul Vallely reveals how this far-reaching change came about. Vivid with anecdote and scholarly insight, this magisterial survey – from the ancient Greeks to today's high-tech geeks – provides an original take on the history of philanthropy. It shows how giving has, variously, been a matter of honour, altruism, religious injunction, political control, moral activism, enlightened self-interest, public good, personal fulfilment and plutocratic manipulation. Its narrative moves from the Greek man of honour and Roman patron, via the Jewish prophet and Christian scholastic – through the Elizabethan machiavel, Puritan proto-capitalist, Enlightenment activist and Victorian moralist – to the robber-baron philanthropist, the welfare socialist, the celebrity activist and today's wealthy mega-giver. In the process it discovers that philanthropy lost an essential element as it entered the modern era. The book then embarks on a journey to determine where today's philanthropists come closest to recovering that missing dimension. Philanthropy explores the successes and failures of philanthrocapitalism, examines its claims and contradictions, and asks tough questions of top philanthropists and leading thinkers – among them Richard Branson, Eliza Manningham-Buller, Jonathan Ruffer, David Sainsbury, John Studzinski, Bob Geldof, Naser Haghamed, Lenny Henry, Jonathan Sacks, Rowan Williams, Ngaire Woods, and the presidents of the Rockefeller and Soros foundations, Rajiv Shah and Patrick Gaspard. In extended conversations they explore the relationship between philanthropy and family, faith, society, art, politics, and the creation and distribution of wealth. Highly engaging and meticulously researched, Paul Vallely's authoritative account of philanthropy then and now critiques the excessive utilitarianism of much modern philanthrocapitalism and points to how philanthropy can rediscover its soul.
Author : Paul Kendall
Publisher : Frontline Books
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2022-01-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781399091374
Few writers have had a greater impact upon British society than Charles Dickens. His stories, and, in particular, his many memorable characters, highlighted the life of the forgotten poor and disadvantaged within society at a time when Britain was the leading economic and political power in the world. Dickens’ portrayal of the poor, such as Oliver Twist daring to ask for more food in the parish workhouse, and Bob Cratchit struggling to provide for his family at Christmas, roused much sympathy and an understanding of the poor and the conditions in which they lived. This led to many people founding orphanages, establishing schools to educate the underprivileged, or to set up hospitals for those who could not afford medical treatment – one such was Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital where one of its wards was named after the great writer. Little wonder, then, that his legacy can be found across the UK. From the buildings where he lived, the inns and hotels he frequented, the streets and towns which formed the backdrop to his novels and short stories, to the places where he gave readings or performed his own amateur dramatic productions to raise funds for his philanthropic causes. Dickensian memorabilia also abound, including his original manuscripts to his famous works and letters to his wife. Many of these have been woven in a single volume which transports the reader magically through stories and images into the Dickensian world of Victorian Britain.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Brenda Ayres,Sarah E. Maier
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 491 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2022-12-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000782639
The Routledge Handbook of Victorian Scandals in Literature and Culture exposes, explores, and examines what Victorians once considered flagrant breaches of decorum. Infringements that were fantasized through artforms or were actually committed exceeded entertaining parlor gossip; once in print they were condemned as socially contaminative but were also consumed as delightfully sensational. Written by scholars in diverse disciplines, this volume: Demonstrates that spreading scandals seemed to have been one of the most entertaining sources of activities but were also normative efforts made by the Victorians to ensure conformity of decorum. Provides a broad spectrum of infractions that were considered scandalous to the Victorians. Identifies Victorian transgressions that made the news and that may still shock modern readers. Covers a gamut of moral infractions and transgressions either practiced, rumored, or fantasized in art forms. This handbook is an invaluable resource about Victorian literature, art, and culture which challenges its readers to ponder perplexing questions about how and why some scandals were perpetrated and propagated in the nineteenth century while others were not, and what the controversies reveal about the human condition that persists beyond Victoria’s reign of propriety.
Author : Philip Collins
Publisher : Springer
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781349235452
'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.
