The Charles Dickens Companion

Author : David Paroissien
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780470691229

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A Companion to Charles Dickens by David Paroissien Pdf

A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing

Author : John O. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2001-06-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107494190

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

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.

Author : Ruth Glancy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1999-11-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313007514

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Student Companion to Charles Dickens by Ruth Glancy Pdf

Charles Dickens was the most popular writer of his age and is still considered one of the world's greatest novelists. This well-written study surveys his unusual and prolific life, relating his fiction writings to his concerns and active involvement with social conditions of early Victorian England. Glancy skillfully takes the reader back in time to appreciate the historical settings that inspired works like Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and A Tale of Two Cities. An entire chapter is devoted to each of these works, as well as to David Copperfield, Hard Times, the Christmas books, and the early novels from The Pickwick Papers to Martin Chuzzlewit. In each chapter Glancy's analysis of plot, style, and character development bring these imaginative stories to life for the reader. This book examines Dickens's keen understanding of human nature and draws out the themes that make works such as A Christmas Carol as beloved today as when first written. This companion to Dickens will aid students in understanding the social context and literary genius of one of the greatest Victorian novelists. The thorough biographical chapter traces Dickens' life from his childhood through the development of his multi-faceted literary career. The literary heritage chapter examines the tremendous influence Dickens exerted on writing then and now. This volume surveys all of Dickens' work and provides in-depth readings of five of his novels and his Christmas works. The series format makes analysis of setting, plot, character development, and themes for each work accessible to students. The alternate critical perspectives enhance readers' understanding of Dickens' work. The selected bibliography and reviews cover both original and contemporary sources.

Author : Michael Cotsell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781135027650

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The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens) by Michael Cotsell Pdf

Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.

Author : Paul Benjamin Davis
Publisher : Facts on File
Page : 676 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0816064075

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Critical Companion to Charles Dickens by Paul Benjamin Davis Pdf

A comprehensinve guide to the English novelist includes a chronology of his life, summaries of each of his works, and entries on major characters, important places, and relevant literary terms.

Author : Michael Hardwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:490855633

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The Charles Dickens Companion (Michael Hardwick, Mollie Hardwick by Michael Hardwick Pdf

Author : Clarice Swisher
Publisher : Greenhaven Press, Incorporated
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39076002463243

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Readings on Charles Dickens by Clarice Swisher Pdf

Presents a series of articles examining the life and works of the English author Charles Dickens, discussing the themes and characters in his many novels, including "Oliver Twist," "David Copperfield," and "A Christmas Carol."

Author : John O. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,9 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.

Author : Paul Schlicke
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 675 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 019866253X

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Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens by Paul Schlicke Pdf

The Oxford Companion to Dickens (published in hardback as The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) offers in one volume a lively and authoritative compendium of information about Dickens: his life, his works, his reputation and his cultural context. In addition to entries on his works, his characters, his friends and places mentioned in his works, it includes extensive information about the age in which he lived and worked: the people, events, and institutions which provided the contextfor his work; the houses he lived in, the countries he visited, the ideas he satirised, the circumstances he responded to, the culture he participated in. Compiled by a distinguished editorial team, The Oxford Companion to Dickens provides a synthesis of the state of the art of Dickens studies and contains a more authoritative, concise, extensive and accessible range of information than any other reference work on Dickens.

Author : Michael Hardwick
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751634834

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The Charles Dickens Companion. [With Illustrations and a Portrait.]. by Michael Hardwick Pdf

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Springer
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349060047

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A Dickens Companion by Norman Page Pdf

Author : David Paroissien
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015049630331

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The Companion to Great Expectations by David Paroissien Pdf

The author draws on a range of 19th century sources to illustrate the late Georgian and mid-Victorian contexts of Dickens' novel. Annotations identify allusions to current events and intellectual and religious issues, and supplies information on topography, social customs, costume, furniture, transportation, and so on.

Author : BookCaps
Publisher : BookCaps Study Guides
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-07-14
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781629173412

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The Charles Dickens Companion by BookCaps Pdf

Charles Dickens create an entire world in his novels. If you are a Dickens fan or find yourself trying to remember whose who and from what novel, then this is a must have reference. This book includes a biography of Dickens, study guides, historical notes, character overviews, and plot summaries for the following novels: David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, Bleak House.

Author : Deirdre David
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107005136

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The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel by Deirdre David Pdf

A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.

Author : Susan Shatto
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781000425000

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The Companion to 'Bleak House' by Susan Shatto Pdf

This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel’s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources – from newspapers, periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books – and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House – Dickens’s tract for the times – and the period when it was written.