Dickens and the Grown-Up Child

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230377998
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (33 download)

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Book Synopsis Dickens and the Grown-Up Child by : M. Andrews

Download or read book Dickens and the Grown-Up Child written by M. Andrews and published by Springer. This book was released on 1994-03-31 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415275422
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (754 download)

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

Download or read book A Routledge Literary Sourcebook on Charles Dickens's David Copperfield written by Richard J. Dunn and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151208
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Dickens and the Imagined Child by : Peter Merchant

Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 226 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.

Holiday Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition)

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Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1427034885
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (27 download)

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Book Synopsis Holiday Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) by : Charles Dickens

Download or read book Holiday Romance (EasyRead Super Large 20pt Edition) written by Charles Dickens and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2006 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137362502
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (373 download)

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Book Synopsis Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood by : K. Boehm

Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood written by K. Boehm and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Dickens and the Imagined Child

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151216
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Book Synopsis Dickens and the Imagined Child by : Peter Merchant

Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 226 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.

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669641
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)

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Book Synopsis The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens by : John O. Jordan

Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens written by John O. Jordan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.

Liminal Dickens

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Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1443893994
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Liminal Dickens by : Valerie Kennedy

Download or read book Liminal Dickens written by Valerie Kennedy and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199640181
Total Pages : 705 pages
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Book Synopsis The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens by : Paul Schlicke

Download or read book The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens written by Paul Schlicke and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3319967916
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (199 download)

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Book Synopsis The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens by : Peter Cook

Download or read book The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens written by Peter Cook and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Other Dickens

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Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465141
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Book Synopsis The Other Dickens by : Lillian Nayder

Download or read book The Other Dickens written by Lillian Nayder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered-unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted. In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown. Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.

The Dickens Industry

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Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 9781571133175
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (331 download)

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Book Synopsis The Dickens Industry by : Laurence W. Mazzeno

Download or read book The Dickens Industry written by Laurence W. Mazzeno and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2008 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : SPECHEL
ISBN 13 : 9630894572
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Book Synopsis CHARLES DICKENS 200 by : Andrew C. Rouse

Download or read book CHARLES DICKENS 200 written by Andrew C. Rouse and published by SPECHEL. This book was released on 2015-10-20 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137408146
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)

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

Download or read book The Boy-Man, Masculinity and Immaturity in the Long Nineteenth Century written by Pete Newbon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-09-04 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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, Family, Authorship

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135194441X
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Book Synopsis Dickens, Family, Authorship by : Lynn Cain

Download or read book Dickens, Family, Authorship written by Lynn Cain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on a wide range of Dickens's writings, including all of his novels and a selection of his letters, journalism, and shorter fiction, Dickens, Family, Authorship provides a provocative account of the evolution of an author from whose psychological honesty and imaginative generosity emerged precocious fictional portents of Freudian and post-Freudian theory. The decade 1843-1853 was pivotal in Dickens's career. A phase of feverish activity on both personal and professional fronts, it included the irrevocable souring of his relations with his parents, the peripatetic residence in continental Europe, and a massive proliferation of writing and editing activities including the aborted autobiography. It was a period of astounding creativity which consolidated Dickens's authorial and financial stature. It was also one tainted by loss: the deaths of his father, sister and daughter, and the alarming desertion of his early facility for composition. Lynn Cain's substantial study of the four novels produced during this turbulent decade - Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Bleak House - traces the evolution of Dickens's creative imagination to discover in the modulating fictional representation of family relationships a paradigm for his authorial development. Closely argued readings demonstrate a reorientation from a patriarchal to a maternal dynamic which signals a radical shift in Dickens's creative technique. Interweaving critical analysis of the four novels with biography and the linguistic and psychoanalytic writings of modern theorists, especially Kristeva and Lacan, Lynn Cain explores the connection between Dickens's susceptibility to depression during this period and his increasingly self-conscious exploitation of his own mental states in his fiction.

Charles Dickens in Context

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107377498
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Charles Dickens in Context by : Sally Ledger

Download or read book Charles Dickens in Context written by Sally Ledger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Illustrated Stories from Dickens

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ISBN 13 : 9781474941501
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (415 download)

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Book Synopsis Illustrated Stories from Dickens by : Mary Sebag-Montefiore

Download or read book Illustrated Stories from Dickens written by Mary Sebag-Montefiore and published by . This book was released on 2022-11-03 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: