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Author : Juliet John
Release : 2003
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 376/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dickens's Villains by : Juliet John
Download or read book Dickens's Villains written by Juliet John. This book was released on 2003. 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.
Author : Kathryn Chittick
Release : 1990-08-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 746/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dickens and the 1830s by : Kathryn Chittick
Download or read book Dickens and the 1830s written by Kathryn Chittick. This book was released on 1990-08-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathryn Chittick examines the early career of Charles Dickens in light of the movements in literary criticism and the rise of the novel and Victorian literary canon.
Author : Claire Wood
Release : 2024-05-31
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Book Rating : 661/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts by : Claire Wood
Download or read book Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts written by Claire Wood. This book was released on 2024-05-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
Author : Robert L. Patten
Release : 2017-03-02
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 444/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures by : Robert L. Patten
Download or read book Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures written by Robert L. Patten. This book was released on 2017-03-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him. The collection describes a world animated by outpourings of print materials: books, serials, newspapers, periodicals, libraries, paintings and prints, parodies and plagiarisms, censorship, advertising, as well as theatre and other entertainment, and celebrity. It also shows this period as driven by a growing and more literate population, and undergirded by a general conviction that writing was a crucial component of governance and civic culture. The extensive introduction and selected articles anchor Dickens's attempts to establish better conditions for writers regarding copyright protection, pay, status, recognition, and effectiveness in altering public policy. They speak about Dickens's life as playwright, journalist, novelist, editor, magazine publisher, theatrical producer, actor, lecturer, reader of his own works, supporter of charities for impoverished authors and fallen women, exponent of a morality of Christian compassion and domestic affections sometimes put into question by his own actions, proponent and critic of British nationalism, and champion of education for all. This selection of essays and articles from previously published accounts by internationally renowned scholars is of interest to all students and professionals who are fascinated by the composition, manufacture, finance, formats, pictorializations, sales, advertising and influence of Dickens's writing.
Author : Peter Cook
Release : 2018-08-29
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 916/5 ( reviews)
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. This book was released on 2018-08-29. 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.
