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Book Synopsis Shadowing Charles Dickens by : S. Askwith
Download or read book Shadowing Charles Dickens written by S. Askwith and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2009-03-14 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vibrant, visceral tale of nineteenth century London which cleverly inter-weaves fact and fiction to expose the joint splendour and sordid nature of the mid-Victorian age.In 'Shadowing Charles Dickens', historical figures like Dickens, Longfellow, and Marx become part of fictional events. Fictional characters - prostitutes, forgers and a homicidal maniac participate in real history. Not for the faint-hearted!
Book Synopsis Shadowing Dickens by : Rick McConnell
Download or read book Shadowing Dickens written by Rick McConnell and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christmas novel, set in London in 1843, tells the story of an orphan named Alfy Wickfield, who meets and is befriended by England’s most famous writer, Charles Dickens. Over the course of a few unforgettable weeks, the two unlikely friends, each guarding secrets about the past, set out on a creative journey through the dark streets of the great city that will culminate in the author’s best-loved and most enduring story, A Christmas Carol. As Dickens breathes life into his characters – Ebenezer Scrooge, Bob Cratchit, Tiny Tim and the Spirits of Christmas – and pours his heart into a ghost story that will cement his reputation of all time, his young companion learns the meaning of sacrifice, the price of loyalty and the power of forgiveness.
Download or read book Dickens's Villains written by Juliet John and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2003 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the deviant and theatrical aspects of his writing.
Book Synopsis Dickens, Journalism, Music by : Robert Terrell Bledsoe
Download or read book Dickens, Journalism, Music written by Robert Terrell Bledsoe and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-02-09 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role.
Book Synopsis Knowing Dickens by : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
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.
Book Synopsis Shadowing Charles Dickens by : S. s askwith
Download or read book Shadowing Charles Dickens written by S. s askwith and published by . This book was released on 2009-02-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the front of St. Bride's,conversely,the gravestones were serried and well-kept, amid trimmed lawns and neat box hedges - permanent markers to the endless passing of the great and the good. The back-side was a disgrace, reflected Billy, unless, of course, you were a rat or a rat-catcher.For also at the rear, out of sight and mind of respectable Londoners, were the pauper's graves. Paupers were interred on Wednesdays - usually without coffins. The bodies were simply thrown into a burial pit, lightly covered with soil, and then boarded over until the following Wednesday. This perfunctory process was repeated, week upon week, until the pit was full and a new one had to be dug. Billy had discovered that by Thursday nights the rats of St. Bride's were invariably in eager attendance, attracted by the newly broken earth and the renewed stench of putrefaction...
Book Synopsis Dickensiana by : Frederic George Kitton
Download or read book Dickensiana written by Frederic George Kitton and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 562 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Invisible Woman by : Claire Tomalin
Download or read book The Invisible Woman written by Claire Tomalin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-29 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens and Nelly Ternan met in 1857; she was 18, a hard-working actress performing in his production of The Frozen Deep, and he was 45, the most lionized writer in England. Out of their meeting came a love affair that lasted thirteen years and destroyed Dickens’s marriage while effacing Nelly Ternan from the public record. In this remarkable work of biography and scholarly reconstruction, the acclaimed biographer of Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas Hardy, Samuel Pepys and Jane Austen rescues Nelly from the shadows of history, not only returning the neglected actress to her rightful place, but also providing a compelling portrait of the great Victorian novelist himself. The result is a thrilling literary detective story and a deeply compassionate work that encompasses all those women who were exiled from the warm, well-lighted parlors of Victorian England.
Book Synopsis Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens) by : John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson
Download or read book Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens) written by John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 255 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.
Book Synopsis Dickens and the Stenographic Mind by : Hugo Bowles
Download or read book Dickens and the Stenographic Mind written by Hugo Bowles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-10 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Initially described by Dickens as a 'savage stenographic mystery', shorthand was to become an essential and influential part of his toolkit as a writer. In this ground-breaking interdisciplinary study, Hugo Bowles tells the story of Dickens's stenographic journey from his early encounters with the 'despotic' shorthand symbols of Gurney's Brachygraphy in 1828 to his lifelong commitment to shorthand for reporting, letter writing, copying, and note-taking. Drawing on empirical evidence from Dickens's shorthand notebooks, Dickens and the Stenographic Mind forensically explores Dickens's unique ability to write in two graphic codes, offering an original critique of the impact of shorthand on Dickens's mental processing of language. The author uses insights from morphology, phonetics, and the psychology of reading to show how Dickens's biscriptal habits created a unique stenographic mindset that was then translated into novel forms of creative writing. The volume argues that these new scriptal arrangements, which include phonetic speech, stenographic patterns of letters in individual words, phonaesthemes, and literary representations of shorthand-related acts of reading and writing, created reading puzzles that bound Dickens and his readers together in a new form of stenographic literacy. Clearly written and cogently argued, Dickens and the Stenographic Mind not only opens up new evidence from a little known area of Dickens's professional life to expert scrutiny, but is highly relevant to a number of important debates in Victorian studies including orality and literacy in the nineteenth century, the role of voice and voicing in Dickens's writing process, his relationship with his readers, and his various writing personae as law reporter, sketch-writer, journalist, and novelist.
Download or read book Dickens written by Barry Cundill and published by Highgate Publications. This book was released on 2008 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New information on the sources of Charles Dickens' novels, particularly the early Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby and the unfinished Edwin Drood, resulting from research into the history of William Cundill (1816-1905), son of a prominent unitarian, Baptist minister John Cundill (1784-1826). Much of the work is drawn from Cundill's own memoirs.
Book Synopsis Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader by : Linda M. Lewis
Download or read book Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader written by Linda M. Lewis and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is “an express text preached on . . . always taken from the lips of Christ.” This preaching, Linda M. Lewis contends, does not end with his Christmas stories but extends throughout the body of his work. In Dickens, His Parables, and His Reader, Lewis examines parable and allegory in nine of Dickens’s novels as an entry into understanding the complexities of the relationship between Dickens and his reader. Through the combination of rhetorical analysis of religious allegory and cohesive study of various New Testament parables upon which Dickens based the themes of his novels, Lewis provides new interpretations of the allegory in his novels while illuminating Dickens’s religious beliefs. Specifically, she alleges that Dickens saw himself as valued friend and moral teacher to lead his “dear reader” to religious truth. Dickens’s personal gospel was that behavior is far more important than strict allegiance to any set of beliefs, and it is upon this foundation that we see allegory activated in Dickens’s characters. Oliver Twist and The Old Curiosity Shop exemplify the Victorian “cult of childhood” and blend two allegorical texts: Jesus’s Good Samaritan parable and John Bunyan’s ThePilgrim’s Progress. In Dombey and Son,Dickens chooses Jesus’s parable of the Wise and Foolish Builders. In the autobiographical David Copperfield, Dickens engages his reader through an Old Testament myth and a New Testament parable: the expulsion from Eden and the Prodigal Son, respectively. Led by his belief in and desire to preach his social gospel and broad church Christianity, Dickens had no hesitation in manipulating biblical stories and sermons to suit his purposes. Bleak House is Dickens’s apocalyptic parable about the Day of Judgment, while Little Dorrit echoes the line “Forgive us our debts as we forgive our debtors” from the Lord’s Prayer, illustrating through his characters that only through grace can all debt be erased. The allegory of the martyred savior is considered in Hard Times and A Tale of Two Cities. Dickens’s final completed novel, Our Mutual Friend, blends the parable of the Good and Faithful Servant with several versions of the Heir Claimant parable. While some recent scholarship debunks the sincerity of Dickens’s religious belief, Lewis clearly demonstrates that Dickens’s novels challenge the reader to investigate and develop an understanding of New Testament doctrine. Dickens saw his relationship with his reader as a crucial part of his storytelling, and through his use and manipulation of allegory and parables, he hoped to influence the faith and morality of that reader.
Book Synopsis In Dialogue with Dickens by : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Download or read book In Dialogue with Dickens written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-22 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collaborative book on the works of Charles Dickens that takes the form of a dialogue between the two authors. The literary conversation prioritizes the act of live reading and the experience of encountering an intense or problematic feeling when reading Dickens's works.
Book Synopsis Dickens and Creativity by : Barbara Hardy
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 198 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.
Book Synopsis The Dickensian by : Bertram Waldrom Matz
Download or read book The Dickensian written by Bertram Waldrom Matz and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dear Mr. Dickens written by Nancy Churnin and published by Albert Whitman & Company. This book was released on 2021-10-01 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2021 National Jewish Book Award Winner - Children's Picture Book 2022 Sydney Taylor Book Award Honor for Picture Books Chicago Public Library Best Informational Books for Younger Readers 2021 The Best Jewish Children's Books of 2021, Tablet Magazine A Junior Library Guild Selection March 2022 The Best Children's Books of the Year 2022, Bank Street College 2022 First Place—Children's Book Nonfiction, Press Women of Texas 2022 First Place—Children's Book Nonfiction, National Federation of Press Women Eliza Davis believed in speaking up for what was right. Even if it meant telling Charles Dickens he was wrong. In Eliza Davis's day, Charles Dickens was the most celebrated living writer in England. But some of his books reflected a prejudice that was all too common at the time: prejudice against Jewish people. Eliza was Jewish, and her heart hurt to see a Jewish character in Oliver Twist portrayed as ugly and selfish. She wanted to speak out about how unfair that was, even if it meant speaking out against the great man himself. So she wrote a letter to Charles Dickens. What happened next is history.
Book Synopsis Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London by : Andrea Warren
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
