Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Dickens: The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensThe Nicholas Nickleby Story
Author: Leon RubinPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Works: Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensDickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death
Author: Jeremy TamblingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042963207X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 180
Book Description
This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts. Nicholas Nickleby deals with the abduction and destruction of children, often with the collusion of their parents. It concentrates on this theme in a way which continues from Oliver Twist, describing such oppression, and the resistance to it, in the language of melodrama, of parody and comedy. With chapters on the school-system that Dickens attacks, and its grotesque embodiment in Squeers, and with discussion of how the novel reshapes eighteenth century literary traditions, and such topics as the novel’s comedy, and the concept of the ‘humorist’; and ‘theatricality’ and its debt to Carlyle,, the book delves into the way that the novel explores madness within the city in those whose lives have been fractured, or ruined, as so many have been, and considers the symptoms of hypocrisy in the lives of the oppressors and the oppressed alike; taking hypocrisy as a Dickensian subject which deserves further examination. Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death explores ways in which Dickens draws on medieval and baroque traditions in how he analyses death and its grotesquerie, especially drawing on the visual tradition of the ‘dance of death’ which is referred to here and which is prevalent throughout Dickens’s novels. It shows these traditions to be at the heart of London, and aims to illuminate a strand within Dickens’s thinking from first to last. Drawing on the critical theory of Walter Benjamin, Freud, Nietzsche and Marx, and with close detailed readings of such well-known figures as Mrs Nickleby, Vincent Crummles and his theatrical troupe, and Mr Mantalini, and attention to Dickens’s description, imagery, irony, and sense of the singular, this book is a major study which will help in the revaluation of Dickens’s early novels.
The life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 446
Book Description
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Classics Illustrated
ISBN: 9781906814588
Category : Boarding schools
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dickens's tale of reform in the boys' schools of Northern England.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby, Etc
Author: Charles DickensSmike
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486831507
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
Originally serialized from 1838 to 1839, Dickens' sprawling third novel stands as one of the great comic achievements of the 19th century. It follows the trials and tribulations of young Nicholas, left penniless after his father unexpectedly dies.
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 895
Book Description
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby tells the story of a young man who must support his mother and sister, as his father dies unexpectedly after losing all of his money in a poor investment. Nicholas, his mother and his younger sister, Kate, are forced to give up their comfortable lifestyle in Devonshire and travel to London to seek the aid of their only relative, Nicholas's uncle Ralph, a cold and ruthless businessman. Nicholas starts working as a tutor in an abusive all-boys boarding school, but that is only the beginning of his adventures and misadventures.