Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
1862. Somebody's luggage, by C. Dickens [and others
Author: Somebody's Luggage
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781544698823
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 56
Book Description
Dickens is at his usual descriptive self, taking a long time to explain the difference between what most people think of as a waiter, and how the narrative character "Mr. Christopher" works as a waiter, which is a bit of a combination of a waiter, bellhop, porter, and other jobs around the hotel and restaurant world. In fact, the first eleven pages are exposition and scene-painting, and it's not until page twelve that we get to the focal point of the story: somebody's luggage.
The First Editions of the Writings of Charles Dickens and Their Values
Author: John C. EckelThe Renowned Collection of the Works of Charles Dickens
Author: Thomas HattonMilitary Men of Feeling
Author: Holly FurneauxPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0198737831
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 257
Book Description
Military Men of Feeling considers the popularity of the figure of the gentle soldier in the Victorian period, inviting us to think afresh about Victorian masculinity and Victorian militarism.
The Life of Charles Dickens
Author: John ForsterCharles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction
Author: Ushashi DasguptaPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192602950
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 459
Book Description
When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
Miscellaneous exhibition catalogues
Author: Grolier clubAnnual Report
Author: Providence AthenaeumPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 696
Book Description
The 55th report, submitted Sept. 27, 1886, includes a historical sketch of the institution from 1836-86.
The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens
Author: Robert L. PattenPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0191061123
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 848
Book Description
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.