Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 19
Book Description
A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree. By Charles Dickens. Together with "1860. Ball at St. Luke's Hospital," Reprinted from The Times, and "Contrast Between 1852 and 1860." An Appeal for Funds for St. Luke's Hospital.
Author: Charles DickensA Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Author: Charles DickensCurious Dance Round a Curious Tree, A. Holograph
Author: 1852. A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree. (Reprinted from "Household Words".) (1860. Ball at St. Luke's Hospital. [Reprinted from the "Times".] - Contrast Between 1852 and 1860.).
Author: Charles DickensReprinted Pieces and the Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
Book Description
Puzzling 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.
Author: William Henry Wills
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