Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Reprinted Pieces and the Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Author: Charles DickensPuzzling the Reader
Author: Gregg A. HecimovichPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9781433101427
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
Puzzling the Reader establishes the place of charms and riddles in nineteenth-century British literature by exploring the literary and political work riddles performed at cultural thresholds: courtship, initiation, death rituals, moments of greeting, and intercultural relations. Furthermore, Puzzling the Reader investigates the new narrative genre that riddles uncover by transforming traditional narrative techniques. Far from disappearing from view, the oral tradition of the riddles rises into view alongside the literary narratives of William Blake, John Keats, and Charles Dickens. The folk tradition of the riddle is imported into print media and reaches its zenith in the nineteenth century. Through analyses of riddles in weekly literature and satire magazines, parlor game books, and popular collected riddles, such as Queen Victoria's «Windsor Enigma», this volume examines the literary and political roles riddles play as they migrate into mass print culture. Three crucial texts illustrate this argument: Blake's «Jerusalem», Keats's «The Eve of St. Agnes», and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend. Each is a work of formal experimentation and each typifies the full range of word play in the period. From Blake to Keats to Dickens, nineteenth-century British literature charts a «history» of the literary riddle.
Old Leaves: Gathered from Household Words
Author: William Henry WillsPublishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Publishers' circular and booksellers' record
Author: The Publishers' Circular and Booksellers' Record of British and Foreign Literature
Author: Selected Journalism 1850-1870
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141921897
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Throughout his writing career Charles Dickens was a hugely prolific journalist. This volume of his later work is selected from pieces that he wrote after he founded the journal Household Words in 1850 up until his death in 1870. Here subjects as varied as his nocturnal walks around London slums, prisons, theatres and Inns of Court, journeys to the continent and his childhood in Kent and London are captured in remarkable pieces such as 'Night Walks', 'On Strike', 'New Year's Day' and 'Lying Awake'. Aiming to catch the imagination of a public besieged by hack journalism, these writings are an extraordinary blend of public and private, news and recollection, reality and fantastic description.
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Author: Publisher:
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Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Author: John Herbert SlaterPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anonyms and pseudonyms
Languages : en
Pages : 784
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