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Dickens and Benjamin

Author : Gillian Piggott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151232
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and Benjamin written by Gillian Piggott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.

Dickens and Benjamin

Author : Gillian Piggott
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151240
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (171 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and Benjamin written by Gillian Piggott and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.

God and Charles Dickens

Author : Gary L. Colledge
Publisher : Baker Books
ISBN 13 : 144123778X
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book God and Charles Dickens written by Gary L. Colledge and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2012-06-01 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.

What the Dickens? - Tales of Crime and Mystery by Charles Dickens (Fantasy and Horror Classics)

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 144740727X
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book What the Dickens? - Tales of Crime and Mystery by Charles Dickens (Fantasy and Horror Classics) written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens was the most popular English novelist of the Victorian era is still very popular today, here are collected the very finest of his crime and mystery stories. Some of the stories included are, 'The Drunkard's Death', 'The Automaton Police', 'The Edwin Drood Syndicate' and many more.

Dickens and the City

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351944479
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the City written by Jeremy Tambling and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several European and American cities, the most significant city for Dickens was London, the city he knew as a boy in the 1820s and which developed in his lifetime to become the finance and imperial capital of the nineteenth-century. His sense of London as monumental and fashionable, modern and anachronistic, has generated a large number of writings and critical approaches: Marxist, sociological, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. Dickens looks at the city from several aspects: as a place bringing together poverty and riches; as the place of the new and of chance and coincidence, and of secret lives exposed by the special figure of the detective. Another crucial area of study is the relationship of the city to women, and women's place in the city, as well as the way Dickens's London matches up with other visual representations. This anthology of criticism surveys the field and is a major contribution to the study of cities, city culture, modernity and Dickens. It brings together key previously published articles and essays and features a comprehensive bibliography of work which scholars can continue to explore.

Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870

Author : Hazel Mackenzie
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1908684208
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (86 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870 written by Hazel Mackenzie and published by Legend Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical analysis of the magazines established and edited by Charles Dickens.

The Works of Charles Dickens

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 408 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Becoming Dickens

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072235
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Dickens written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191061115
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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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 848 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.

Dickens's London

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748656030
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Dickens's London written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both. Key Features Major reassessment of Dickens's writing on the city Dual focus on methodology and the historicity of Dickensian urban consciousness Philosophical reflections on urban tropologies through key passages from Dickens's texts recreate the experience of Victorian London Inventive structure offers the reader an experience of the disordered multiplicity of London Illustrated with 19 maps and photographs

Knowing Dickens

Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467012
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Dickens written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-09 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself—the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions—and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Charles Dickens and 'Boz'

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107023513
Total Pages : 427 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and 'Boz' written by Robert L. Patten and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-05-10 with total page 427 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An original study of Dickens' early career and the way he constructed his literary reputation.

Dickens's London

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748656057
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Dickens's London written by Julian Wolfreys and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-19 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Reading Dickens Differently

Author : Leon Litvack
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 111960222X
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book Reading Dickens Differently written by Leon Litvack and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual, and digital—representing new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games, and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with the author's life and work. This unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens’ death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens’ texts in digital form, and more. Much of the evidence presented has never been seen before, such as Dickens' funeral fee account from Westminster Abbey, Dickens' death certificate, and a telegram from Dickens' son asking for urgent assistance for his dying father. Revising and refreshing the critical strategies of traditional Dickens studies, this important volume: Features new research data on aspects of Dickens's life Discusses a range of innovative reading strategies (including physiological novel theory) for clarifying aspects of Dickens' work Examines the presence of Dickens in popular media and technology, such as Assassin’s Creed video game and A Christmas Carol iPad app Features rare illustrations, including documents and images relating to Dickens's death and funeral Edited by world authorities on Dickens and his manuscripts Authoritative, yet accessible, Reading Dickens Differently is a must-have book for Dickens specialists, instructors and students in Victorian fiction and Dickens courses, as well as general readers lookingfor innovative reading strategies of the author's work.

The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight] Volumes

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight] Volumes written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

One Hot Summer

Author : Rosemary Ashton
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300231199
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book One Hot Summer written by Rosemary Ashton and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-07-18 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique, in-depth view of Victorian London during the record-breaking summer of 1858, when residents both famous and now-forgotten endured “The Great Stink” together While 1858 in London may have been noteworthy for its broiling summer months and the related stench of the sewage-filled Thames River, the year is otherwise little remembered. And yet, historian Rosemary Ashton reveals in this compelling microhistory, 1858 was marked by significant, if unrecognized, turning points. For ordinary people, and also for the rich, famous, and powerful, the months from May to August turned out to be a summer of consequence. Ashton mines Victorian letters and gossip, diaries, court records, newspapers, and other contemporary sources to uncover historically crucial moments in the lives of three protagonists—Charles Dickens, Charles Darwin, and Benjamin Disraeli. She also introduces others who gained renown in the headlines of the day, among them George Eliot, Karl Marx, William Thackeray, and Edward Bulwer Lytton. Ashton reveals invisible threads of connection among Londoners at every social level in 1858, bringing the celebrated city and its citizens vibrantly to life.

Dickens and the Dream of Cinema

Author : Grahame Smith
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780719055638
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (556 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Dream of Cinema written by Grahame Smith and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2003-11-08 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking his cue from Walter Benjamin's concept of each epoch dreaming the epoch that is to follow, Grahame Smith argues that Dickens' novels can be regarded as proto-filmic in the detail of their language as well as their larger formal structures. This possibility arises from Dickens' creative engagement with the city as metropolis, as it emerges in the London of the 1830s, plus his immersion in the visual entertainments of his day, such as the panorama, as well as technological advances such as the railway which anticipates cinema in some of its major features. The book offers a new way of reading Dickens, through the perspective of a form which he knew nothing of, while simultaneously suggesting an account of his part in the manifold forces that led to the appearance of film towards the end of the 19th century.