Author: Eva KantůrkováPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
My Companions in the Bleak House
Author: Eva KantůrkováThe Companion to 'Bleak House'
Author: Susan ShattoPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000425002
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 434
Book Description
This book, first published in 1988, is the most comprehensive annotation of Bleak House ever undertaken. It provides authoritative background information about the topical issues of the novel that interested Dickens as a social critic and activist. It also describes the novel’s literary antecedents and identifies the sources of its hundreds of literary and historical allusions. The annotation is based on a wide range of nineteenth-century sources – from newspapers, periodicals and parliamentary papers to travel guides and cookery books – and gives the modern reader unprecedented access to both Bleak House – Dickens’s tract for the times – and the period when it was written.
Bleak House
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Author: John O. JordanPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book Description
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
Bleak House
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Collector's Library
ISBN: 9781904919971
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1292
Book Description
In 'Bleak House', Dickens satirizes the English legal system with the story of one family's ruin as a result of a dispute over the distribution of the family estate.
Bleak House
Author: Charles John Huffam DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 466
Book Description
Bleak House, Vol. I ~ Paperbound
Author: Publisher: Classic Books Company
ISBN: 074269674X
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Bleak House
Author: DickensThe Walls Behind the Curtain
Author: Harold B. SegelPublisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN: 0822978024
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 449
Book Description
Because of their visibility in society and ability to shape public opinion, prominent literary figures were among the first targets of Communist repression, torture, and incarceration. Authors such as Alexsandr Solzhenitsyn famously documented the experience of internment in Soviet gulags. Little, however, has been published in the English language on the work of writers imprisoned by other countries of the Soviet bloc. For the first time, The Walls Behind the Curtain presents a collection of works from East European novelists, poets, playwrights, and essayists who wrote during or after their captivity under communism. Harold B. Segel paints a backdrop of the political culture and prison and labor camp systems of each country, detailing the onerous conditions that writers faced. Segel then offers biographical information on each writer and presents excerpts of their writing. Notable literary figures included are Vaclav Havel, Eva Kanturkova, Milan SimeCka, Adam Michnik, Milovan Djilas, Paul Goma, Tibor Dery, and Visar Zhiti, as well as many other writers. This anthology recovers many of the most important yet overlooked literary voices from the era of Communist occupation. Although translated from numerous languages, and across varied cultures, there is a distinct commonality in the experiences documented by these works. The Walls Behind the Curtain serves as a testament to the perseverance of the human spirit and a quest for individual liberty that many writers forfeited their lives for.
Author: Charles Dickens