Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 776
Book Description
Dickens: The Life and adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby, part I
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
Nicholas Nickleby, part I
Author: Charles DickensNicholas Nickleby, part I.
Author: Charles DickensWorks: Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensThe Nicholas Nickleby Story
Author: Leon RubinPublisher: Heinemann Educational Books
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Nicholas Nickleby
Author: Charles DickensPublisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504061608
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
A young man fights to save his mother and sister—and a group of abused schoolboys—in this novel of hardship and heroism from the great Victorian writer. Suddenly fatherless and penniless, young Nicholas Nickleby can find no help for himself and his family. His uncle Ralph may be rich, but he is neither a kind nor an honorable man—so it is up to Nicholas to take responsibility. His adventures in Victorian England will take Nicholas to a job at a boys’ school run by a brutal and dictatorial headmaster, a London slum, and a theater troupe where he works under an assumed name—and into a web of revenge, blackmail, and kidnapping—as he struggles to overcome the evil forces arrayed against him. “The novel has everything . . . a supporting cast of heroes, villains and eccentrics, set in a London where vast wealth and desperate poverty live cheek-by-jowl.” —The Times
The Charles Dickens Edition
Author: Charles DickensDickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death
Author: Jeremy TamblingPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 042963207X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 278
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.
Author: Charles Dickens