A Companion to Charles Dickens

Paroissien, David

A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.

• Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts
• Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist
• Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels
• Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform
• Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing

Details

Published by: Wiley-Blackwell

Publication Date: 2011-04-25

Format: Paperback

ISBN-13: 9780470657942

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Dimensions: 246.4cm x171.5cm

Pages: 544.0