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Author : John Butt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (977 download)
Download or read book Dickens at Work written by John Butt and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Butt
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134543999
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)
Download or read book Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens) written by John Butt and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens’ detailed manuscript notes for novels, with a complete transcript of these for every instalment and chapter of David Copperfield. Seven other books are chosen, so that the different stages of his career and different kinds of work are well represented. The volume illustrates what modes of planning Dickens evolved as best suited to his genius and to the demands of serial publication, monthly or weekly; how he responded to the events of the day; and how he yet managed to combine the freshness of this "periodical", almost journalistic approach with the art of the novel.
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Author : John Butt
Publisher : London, Methuen
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Dickens at Work [by] John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson written by John Butt and published by London, Methuen. This book was released on 1957 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Janice M. Allan
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415247726
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (477 download)
Download or read book Charles Dickens's Bleak House written by Janice M. Allan and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook examines Dickens' novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.
Author : John Everett Butt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780416297102
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (971 download)
Download or read book Dickens at Work written by John Everett Butt and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Butt
Publisher : Methuen Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Dickens at Work written by John Butt and published by Methuen Publishing. This book was released on 1982 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of the detailed manuscript notes for eight of Dickens' novels.
Author : Jenny Hartley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191092266
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Jenny Hartley and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-08 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another. His characters have such vitality that they have leapt from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Scrooge, Fagin, Mr Micawber, and many many more. His portrait has been in our pockets, on our ten-pound notes; he is a national icon, indeed himself a generator of what Englishness signifies. In this book Jenny Hartley explores the key themes running through Dickens's corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of nineteenth century society and its institutions, such as the workhouses and prisons. Running alonside this is Dickens's relish of the carnivalesque; if there is a prison in almost every novel, there is also a theatre. She considers Dickens's multiple lives and careers: as magazine editor for two thirds of his working life, as travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social causes including ragged schools and fallen women. She also shows how his public readings enthralled the readers he wanted to reach but also helped to kill him. Finally, Hartley considers what we mean when we use the term 'Dickensian' today, and how Dickens's enduring legacy marks him out as as a novelist different in kind from others.
Author : John O. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521893930
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (939 download)
Download or read book Literature in the Marketplace written by John O. Jordan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-07-28 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This wide-ranging and innovative collection of essays addresses important issues in cultural studies and the history of the book. Multidisciplinary in approach, the essays consider different aspects of the production, circulation, and consumption of printed texts throughout the nineteenth century. Topics studied include market trends, modes of publication, the use of pseudonyms by women writers, readerships and reading ideologies, and copyright law; and the book examines a wide range of printed materials, from valentines, advertisements, illustrations, and fashionable annuals, to the more traditional literary genres of poetry, fiction and periodical essays. The authors under discussion include Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Meredith, and Walter Pater. Contributors draw on speech-act, reader-response, and gender theory in addition to various historical, narratological, materialist, and bibliographical perspectives.
Author : Sarah Winter
Publisher : Fordham University Press
ISBN 13 : 0823266192
Total Pages : 486 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (232 download)
Download or read book The Pleasures of Memory written by Sarah Winter and published by Fordham University Press. This book was released on 2015-08-03 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Rendering literary history responsive to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
Author : Josephine M. Guy
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1349249041
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (492 download)
Download or read book The Victorian Social-Problem Novel written by Josephine M. Guy and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 1996-09-18 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes various accounts of the Victorian social-problem novel, examining their strengths and limitations in the light of the historiographical assumptions which underlie them. An alternative historical account is offered, which focuses on the novels' intellectual milieu - specifically on mid-Victorian concepts of 'the social' and of what was understood by the term 'social problem'. In detailed readings of individual works, the book argues that an appreciation of these concepts permits new ways of understanding the contradictions identified in these works together with their apparently 'conservative' politics.
Author : R. Patten
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230524206
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies written by R. Patten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.
Author : Daniel Tyler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107028434
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Dickens's Style written by Daniel Tyler and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-07-04 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by leading scholars, this collection of essays offers the first comprehensive and accessible book on Dickens's style.
Author : Michael Hollington
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317619706
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (176 download)
Download or read book Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals) written by Michael Hollington and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers. The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key aspects that particularly impacted on Dickens’ imagination: popular theatre (especially pantomime), caricature, and the tradition of the Gothic novel. Michael Hollington traces the development of Dickens’ application of the grotesque from his early work to his late novels, showing how its use becomes more subtle. Hollington’s title greatly enhances our appreciation of Dickens’ technique, showing the skill with which he used the grotesque to undermine stereotyped responses and encourage his readership to challenge their context.
Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141936932
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)
Download or read book Selected Short Fiction written by Charles Dickens and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2005-02-24 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This witty and amusing collection of short pieces shows Dickens liberated from the more formal and sustained demands of the novel and experimenting with a diverse range of fictional techniques. In his tales of the supernatural, he creates frighteningly believable, spine-tingling stories of prophetic dreams and visions, as well as more fantastical adventures with goblins and apparitions. Impressionistic sketches combine imaginatively heightened travel journals with wry observations of home and abroad, while in his dramatic monologues, Dickens demonstrates his talent for exploring the secret workings of the human mind. These short works display Dickens's exuberant sense of comedy and character as his imagination is given free rein.
Author : Sylvere Monod
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135027544
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Martin Chuzzlewit (RLE Dickens) written by Sylvere Monod and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although enjoyed my many as a masterpiece of Dickens’ comic writing, Martin Chuzzlewit has long been underrated by professional critics. This volume redresses the balance by devoting its attention to a full critical discussion of the novel and by including a full survey of the critical positions held in the past. As well as discussing the themes of selfishness and hypocrisy, the history of the text is also explored, as is the complex relationship between Dickens and the United States which played a great part in the development of the novel and exerted considerable influence on it early reception.
Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674253736
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Becoming Dickens written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. Like the hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted by “what might have been, and what was not.” In his own lifetime, Dickens was without rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.” But he was not always confident about his standing in the world. From his traumatized childhood to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sudden death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced powerful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies. Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches, and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough. Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements.
Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191061115
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.
