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Author : Garrett Stewart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674864863
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the Trials of Imagination written by Garrett Stewart and published by . This book was released on 2013-10-01 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert Higbie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780813015934
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (159 download)
Download or read book Dickens and Imagination written by Robert Higbie and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A work which all 19th-century scholars will find useful and which Dickens scholars will find indispensable."--Edwin M. Eigner, University of California at Riverside Robert Higbie investigates the concept and use of imagination in Romantic and Victorian literature, concentrating on the novels of Charles Dickens and showing how they illuminate and are influenced by various tendencies in post-Romantic thought. Higbie offers a new definition of imagination as a function of desire, an unstable compound existing "at the intersection of reason and desire," and he discusses the way 19th-century writers attempted to use imagination to revive or replace religious belief. Against this background he discusses Dickens's works from Pickwick to Our Mutual Friend, showing that both an idealist emphasis on imagination and a realist distrust of it evolved in complex ways throughout Dickens's career. He argues that Dickens's novels involve a search for some sort of spiritual ideal and that he based that search on imagination. At the same time, Dickens recognized the limitations of imagination and attempted to transform it through the process enacted in his novels. During a period when criticism has been dominated by ideological orthodoxy, Higbie does not impose modern, quasi-political attitudes on his subject but rather accepts the past sympathetically on its own terms. His work is refreshingly free of jargon and offers an alternate way of thinking about literature and the creative process. Robert Higbie, professor of English at Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina, is the author of Character and Structure in the English Novel (UPF, 1984) as well as numerous articles on 19th-century British literature.
Author : Spencer Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Value of Imagination written by Spencer Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the nineteenth-century English novelist, Charles Dickens, emphasizing the value of an imaginative mind.
Author : A. O. J. Cockshut
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135027692
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens) written by A. O. J. Cockshut and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in Dickens’ obsession with such topics as money, crowds and prisons which touch the life of everyone. From the deep fears of his childhood they became the main food for his imagination. As his creative mind worried over them, so his art developed. This process provided the driving force behind his work, and is at the root of his greatness as an artist.
Author : Barbara Hardy
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1441197826
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (411 download)
Download or read book Dickens and Creativity written by Barbara Hardy and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2008-07-24 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subversion and disorder, poetry and inter-textuality, anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism, influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh. Discussing Dickens's novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.
Author : Sally Ledger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521845777
Total Pages : 19 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the Popular Radical Imagination written by Sally Ledger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-03-22 with total page 19 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sally Ledger offers substantial readings of the influences of radical writers on works from Pickwick to Little Dorrit.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.B/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Carey
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571281249
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (712 download)
Download or read book The Violent Effigy written by John Carey and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2011-09-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited. It shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness: he was attracted by characters who commit murder or burst into flame or want to eat one another, but also required people soaped and regimented. The children he created were either the pious gnomes beloved of Victorian readers or callous, sharp-nosed children who pick out adults by the odd personal atmospheres they carry around. Among his females are mythic women whose insidious miniature weapons - needles, scissors - threaten the dominant male. He created a shadow-land between life and death, peopled by effigies, walking coffins, waxworks, stuffed creatures and disturbingly animated corpses. John Carey skilfully shows how Dickens demolished Victorian shams, while keeping at bay the terrors of his fantasy. He celebrates, above all, Dickens' peculiar genius for renewing the world by the curious lights he saw in it.
Author : Beryl Gray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317035380
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)
Download or read book The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination written by Beryl Gray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-03-23 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens’s city, so too did they populate his fiction, journalism, and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens’s relationship to canines, Beryl Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens’s vision and experience of London and to his representations of its life. Gray draws on an array of reminiscences by Dickens’s friends, family, and fellow writers, and also situates her book within the context of nineteenth-century attitudes towards dogs as revealed in the periodical press, newspapers, and institutional archives. Integral to her study is her analysis of Dickens’s texts in relationship to their illustrations by George Cruikshank and Hablot Knight Browne and to portraiture by late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century artists like Thomas Gainsborough and Edwin Landseer. The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination will not only enlighten readers and critics of Dickens and those interested in his life but will serve as an important resource for scholars interested in the Victorian city, the treatment of animals in literature and art, and attitudes towards animals in nineteenth-century Britain.
Author : A. O. J. Cockshut
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780758177353
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (773 download)
Download or read book The Imagination of Charles Dickens written by A. O. J. Cockshut and published by . This book was released on 2003-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peter Merchant
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN 13 : 1472423836
Total Pages : 227 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (724 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and published by Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.. This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Mildred Newcomb
Publisher : Ohio State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814204821
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (142 download)
Download or read book The Imagined World of Charles Dickens written by Mildred Newcomb and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Garrett Stewart
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the Trials of Imagination written by Garrett Stewart and published by Cambridge : Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1974 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stewart investigates the fanciful impulse among Dickens's characters, their exchange of semblance for reality, their use of the imagination as a means of retaliating against the fallen Dickensian world.
Author : John Carey
Publisher : Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Here Comes Dickens written by John Carey and published by Schocken Books Incorporated. This book was released on 1974 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries as people settle near the marsh by the sea, herons and other animals are displaced.
Author : David Copperfield
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780061054938
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (549 download)
Download or read book David Copperfield's Beyond Imagination written by David Copperfield and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1998-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like its triumphant predecessor, the first volume in David Copperfield's ongoing collection of tales by his favorite writers, this is far more than just a book. It is a dazzling miracle show in which some of today's most celebrated authors have been summoned onstage and asked to perform their own special wizardry for a legendary performer's millions of dedicated fans. This second "invitation-only" volume includes such masters as Neil Gaiman, Peter S. Beagle, Anne McCaffrey, Tad Williams, Greg Bear, Katherine Dunn, and the Grand Illusionist himself.
Author : Peter J. Capuano
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 1501772880
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (17 download)
Download or read book Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination written by Peter J. Capuano and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-15 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination offers an original analysis of how Charles Dickens's use of "low" and "slangular" (his neologism) language allowed him to express and develop his most sophisticated ideas. Using a hybrid of digital (distant) and analogue (close) reading methodologies, Peter J. Capuano considers Dickens's use of bodily idioms—"right-hand man," "shoulder to the wheel," "nose to the grindstone"—against the broader lexical backdrop of the nineteenth century. Dickens was famously drawn to the vernacular language of London's streets, but this book is the first to call attention to how he employed phrases that embody actions, ideas, and social relations for specific narrative and thematic purposes. Focusing on the mid- to late career novels Dombey and Son, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, Capuano demonstrates how Dickens came to relish using common idioms in uncommon ways and the possibilities they opened up for artistic expression. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination establishes a unique framework within the social history of language alteration in nineteenth-century Britain for rethinking Dickens's literary trajectory and its impact on the vocabularies of generations of novelists, critics, and speakers of English.
Author : A.N. Wilson
Publisher : HarperCollins
ISBN 13 : 0062954962
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (629 download)
Download or read book The Mystery of Charles Dickens written by A.N. Wilson and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-08-04 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Plutarch Award for Best Biography A lively and insightful biographical celebration of the imaginative genius of Charles Dickens, published in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of his death. Charles Dickens was a superb public performer, a great orator and one of the most famous of the Eminent Victorians. Slight of build, with a frenzied, hyper-energetic personality, Dickens looked much older than his fifty-eight years when he died—an occasion marked by a crowded funeral at Westminster Abbey, despite his waking wishes for a small affair. Experiencing the worst and best of life during the Victorian Age, Dickens was not merely the conduit through whom some of the most beloved characters in literature came into the world. He was one of them. Filled with the twists, pathos, and unusual characters that sprang from this novelist’s extraordinary imagination, The Mystery of Charles Dickens looks back from the legendary writer’s death to recall the key events in his life. In doing so, he seeks to understand Dickens’ creative genius and enduring popularity. Following his life from cradle to grave, it becomes clear that Dickens’s fiction drew from his life—a fact he acknowledged. Like Oliver Twist, Dickens suffered a wretched childhood, then grew up to become not only a respectable gentleman but an artist of prodigious popularity. Dickens knew firsthand the poverty and pain his characters endured, including the scandal of a failed marriage. Going beyond standard narrative biography, A. N. Wilson brilliantly revisits the wellspring of Dickens’s vast and wild imagination, to reveal at long last why his novels captured the hearts of nineteenth century readers—and why they continue to resonate today. The Mystery of Charles Dickens is illustrated with 30 black-and-white images.
