Author: Wilkie CollinsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
2 Letters from Wilkie Collins, 1 to Mrs John Forster and 1 to F.C. Beard
Author: Wilkie CollinsLocation Register of English Literary Manuscripts and Letters, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A-J
Author: David C. SuttonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
The Public Face of Wilkie Collins
Author: Andrew GassonPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1040156088
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1775
Book Description
The editors have transcribed 2,500 of Wilkie Collins's letters, around 700 of them previously unidentified, and have given them all a full scholarly annotation and context. The letters shed light on the personal life and business activities of this creative Victorian personality.
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens
Author: Helena KellyPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1639365346
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 219
Book Description
A radical reassessment of the famed Victorian author, revealing the true story behind the creator of some of literature's best-known novels. This dynamic new study of Charles Dickens will make readers re-examine his life and work in a completely different light. First, partly due to the massive digitalization of papers and letters in recent years, Helena Kelly has unearthed new material about Dickens that simply wasn't available to his earlier biographers. Second, in an astonishing piece of archival detective work, she has traced and then joined the dots on revelatory new details about his mental and physical health that, as the reader will discover, had a strong bearing on both his writing and his life and eventual death. Together these have allowed her to come up with a striking hypothesis that the version of his life that Dickens chose to share with his public—both during his lifetime and from beyond the grave in the authorized biography published shortly after his death—was an elaborate exercise in reputation management. Many of the supposed formative events in his life—such as the twelve-year-old Dickens going to work in a blacking factory—may not have been quite as honestly-related as we have been led to believe. And, in many respects, who can blame him? Dickens's celebrity was on a scale almost unimaginable to any author writing today, with the possible exception of J. K. Rowling, and, like many people who become suddenly famous, he soon realized what a mixed blessing it was.
2 Letters from Wilkie Collins, 1 to George Smith and 1 to Mrs Smith
Author: Wilkie CollinsReading Dickens Differently
Author: Leon LitvackPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 111960222X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
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.
Letters of Charles Dickens to Wilkie Collins
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English letters
Languages : en
Pages : 206
Book Description
Army Directory
Author: Springtime and Other Essays
Author: Francis DarwinPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752325038
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Springtime and Other Essays by Francis Darwin
Letters of Edward Fitzgerald
Author: William Aldis WrightPublisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3752313277
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Reproduction of the original: Letters of Edward Fitzgerald by William Aldis Wright