Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Letters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865... Edited... by Edgar Johnson
Letters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865. Selected and edited from the collection in the Pierpont-Morgan Library, with a critical and biographical introduction by Edgar Johnson. [With a portrait.]
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Author: Charles DickensLetters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts, 1841-1865
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Charity
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
Letters from Charles Dickens to Angela Burdett-Coutts
Author: Charles John Huffam DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
God and Charles Dickens
Author: Gary L. ColledgePublisher: Baker Books
ISBN: 144123778X
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
Charles Dickens's 200th birthday will be celebrated in 2012. Though his writings are now more than 100 years old, many remain in print and are avidly read and studied. Often overlooked--or unknown--are the considerable Christian convictions Dickens held and displayed in his work. This book fills that vacuum by examining Dickens the Christian and showing how Christian beliefs and practices permeate his work. This historical work is written for pastors, students, and laity alike. Chapters look at Dickens's life and work topically, arguing that Christian faith was front and center in some of what Dickens wrote (such as his children's work The Life of Our Lord) and saliently implicit throughout various other characters and plots. Since Dickens's Christian side is rarely considered, Gary Colledge illuminates a fresh angle of Dickens, and the 200th birthday makes it especially timely.
Dickens and Women
Author: Michael SlaterPublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804711807
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 502
Book Description
This brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens's work and life. Dickens's treatment of women is a central aspect of his artistic achievement. Professor Slater examines the novelist's experience of women - as son, brother, lover, husband, and father, and as it affected the deepest emotional currents in his life. His perception of female nature and his conception of women's role in the home and outside it - and the ways in which these found expression in his art - are pivotal topics. Professor Slater has sifted the mass of legends and doubtful traditions about Dickens's private life to present a close examination of his relations with women, and of his views of woman's nature and the womanly ideal.
The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)
Author: Michael CotsellPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135027668
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.
Secret Journeys
Author: Nicholas H. MorganPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838634479
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
This work argues that Dickens's novels form a multifaceted canon with strong family resemblances (and differences) among its members. The book creates a dynamic model of the Dickensian universe by following three aspects of the canon: the dialectic between fancy and authority, the psychology of symbol and memory, and the relationship between narrator and reader. Illustrated.
The Dickens Industry
Author: Laurence W. MazzenoPublisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, he was resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a new breed of literary theorists who fault his chauvinism and imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised, however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early 21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.
Dickens's Women
Author: Anne IsbaPublisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 1441193278
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 182
Book Description
On the bicentenary of his birth, this short account of the emotional life of Charles Dickens examines his relationships with some of the women to whom he was closest. They include the mother who failed to recognise his early promise; the young woman who spurned him before he was famous; the wife he cast aside in middle age; the benefactress for whom he managed a house for 'fallen women'; and the actress, less than half his age, with whom he spent his final years. Each woman casts light on a different aspect of Dickens's personality. But they were united by a common theme: whatever they gave him, it was rarely enough to satisfy Dickens's sense of entitlement.