Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The Heart of Charles Dickens, as Revealed in His Letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts
Author: Charles DickensThe Heart of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles DickensPublisher:
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Category : Novelists, English
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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The heart of Charles Dickens as revealed in his letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts, selected and edited from the collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library, with a critical and biographical introd. by Edgar Johnson
Author: Charles DickensThe Heart of Charles Dickens as Revealed in His Letters to Angela Burdett-Coutts. Selected... from the Collection in the Pierpont Morgan Library,... by Edgar Johnson
Author: Charles DickensEdinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts
Author: Claire WoodPublisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 1474441661
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 605
Book Description
The Edinburgh Companion to Charles Dickens and the Arts explores Dickens's rich and complex relationships with a myriad of art forms and the far-reaching resonance of his works across the arts overall. This volume reassesses Dickens's prescient philosophy of art, both through a historical and a present-day lens and in the context of debates about the cultural value of the arts. Across thirty-three original essays, it outlines the ways in which Dickens broke down oppositions between high and low art, money and the aesthetic, the extraordinary and the ordinary, and art for its own sake and the social good. In doing so, it considers how Dickens prefigured the arts of the future, including rap music, television, fanfiction and global cinema.
The Pleasures of Memory
Author: Sarah WinterPublisher: Fordham Univ Press
ISBN: 0823266184
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
How did this nineteenth-century novelist change the way we think? “A fine contribution to the sociology of literature . . . Highly recommended.” —Choice What are the sources of the commonly held presumption that reading literature should make people more just, humane, and sophisticated? Looking at literary history in relation to the cultural histories of reading, publishing, and education, The Pleasures of Memory illuminates the ways in which Dickens’s serial fiction shaped not only the popular practice of reading for pleasure and instruction but also the school subject we now know as “English.” Sarah Winter shows how Dickens’s serial fiction instigated specific reading practices by reworking the conventions of religious didactic tracts from which most Victorians learned to read. Incorporating an influential associationist psychology of learning founded on the cumulative functioning of memory, Dickens’s serial novels consistently led readers to reflect on their reading as a form of shared experience. Dickens’s celebrity authorship, Winter argues, represented both a successful marketing program for popular fiction and a cultural politics addressed to a politically unaffiliated, social-activist Victorian readership. As late-nineteenth-century educational reforms consolidated British and American readers into “mass” populations served by state school systems, Dickens’s beloved novels came to embody the socially inclusive and humanizing goals of democratic education.
Dickens and Shakespeare
Author: Robert F. FleissnerPublisher: Ardent Media
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
Charles Dickens, New Edition
Author: Editor Harold BloomPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438139942
Category : Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 323
Book Description
Presents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
A Tale of Two Cities
Author: Ruth F. GlancyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317943228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 191
Book Description
First published in 1993. This annotated bibliography covers all material relating to A Tale o f Two Cities from Dickens’s first hints of it in his Book o f Memoranda to critical studies published in 1991. It is divided into three main parts: “Text,” “Studies,” and “Selected Bibliography.”
Eyes Across the Channel
Author: Clare A. SimmonsPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000534731
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 215
Book Description
This book, first published in 2000, uses interpretations of the French Revolution as a model to ask what history meant to Victorian Britain, how events became enshrined with the authority of history, and how such cultural assumptions might help us to read nineteenth-century British literature. By examining reactions to French revolution in a broad selection of texts, this book explores how the Victorians responded to developments in France in historical terms, repeatedly comparing new events to the touchstone of the first French Revolution, yet always with the goal of finding ways to understand Britain’s own past, present and future.