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Knowing Dickens
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ISBN: 9780801446146 0801446147 1322503168 0801476232 0801460107 0801467012 9780801460104 9780801467011 9780801476235 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thought world of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection-notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself-the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions-and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

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ISBN: 1134781458 1280115270 0203194756 0203286235 113478144X 0415134595 0415568757 9780203286234 0746308108 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Routledge

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the works for themselves.


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Dickens's style
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ISBN: 9781107028432 9781139236201 9781107527430 9781107250260 1107250269 1139236202 1107028434 1139891227 9781139891226 1107241561 9781107241565 1107527430 1107251095 9781107251090 1107248604 9781107248601 1107247772 9781107247772 1107249430 9781107249431 1299749097 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.


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The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination.
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ISBN: 1317035380 1317035372 1472435303 9781472435309 9781472435293 147243529X 9781315615653 9781317035367 9781317035374 132243414X 0367880180 1315615657 Year: 2014 Publisher: Farnham Ashgate Publishing Ltd

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In her study of Dickens's relationship to canines, Gray shows that dogs, real and invented, were intrinsic to Dickens's vision and experience of London and its representation. She makes use of personal reminiscences, periodicals, images of dogs by portrait artists and Dickens's illustrators, and institutional archives to shed light not only on Dickens's life and works, but also on his society's complex and conflicting perceptions of and attitudes towards dogs.

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ISBN: 1282501402 0300165528 9786612501401 1441645586 9781441645586 0300112076 9780300112078 9780300165524 9781282501409 6612501405 9780300112078 0300112076 Year: 2009 Publisher: New Haven Yale University Press

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This long-awaited biography, twenty years after the last major account, uncovers Dickens the man through the profession in which he excelled. Drawing on a lifetime's study of this prodigiously brilliant figure, Michael Slater explores the personal and emotional life, the high-profile public activities, the relentless travel, the charitable works, the amateur theatricals and the astonishing productivity. But the core focus is Dickens' career as a writer and professional author, covering not only his big novels but also his phenomenal output of other writing--letters, journalism, shorter fiction, plays, verses, essays, writings for children, travel books, speeches, and scripts for his public readings, and the relationships among them.Slater's account, rooted in deep research but written with affection, clarity, and economy, illuminates the context of each of the great novels while locating the life of the author within the imagination that created them. It highlights Dickens' boundless energy, his passion for order and fascination with disorder, his organizational genius, his deep concern for the poor and outrage at indifference towards them, his susceptibility towards young women, his love of Christmas and fairy tales, and his hatred of tyranny.Richly and precisely illustrated with many rare images, this masterly work on the complete Dickens, man and writer, becomes the indispensable guide and companion to one of the greatest novelists in the language.


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Circle of fire
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ISBN: 0813161886 9780813161884 1322601445 9781322601441 0813150892 9780813150895 Year: 2015 Publisher: Lexington The University Press of Kentucky

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This study explores the theater actually known and frequented by Dickens in order to show in terms of concrete structural analysis of his novels the nature of the predominantly ""dramatic"" or ""theatrical"" quality of his genius. Author William F. Axton finds that the three principal dramatic modes or ""voices"" that were characteristically Victorian were burlesquerie, grotesquerie, and the melodramatic, and that the novelist's vision of the world around him was drawn from ways of seeing transformed from those elements in the popular playhouse of his day -- as revealed in the structure and th


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Reflections on/of Dickens
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ISBN: 144386496X 9781443864961 132205150X 9781322051505 9781443860086 1443860085 Year: 2014 Publisher: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK

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This collection of new essays draws attention to the various and complex ways in which scholars and critics have reflected upon and reacted to Charles Dickens's texts, including his novels, short fiction and journalism. Subsequent to the initial publication of Dickens's works, writers, visual artists and filmmakers have re-imagined, transposed and transformed them from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Although Reflections on / of Dickens recognizes the writer's importance as first a...

Charles Dickens
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ISBN: 1474211305 1283122928 9786613122926 1441169180 9781441169181 9781441168856 1441168850 9780826489647 0826489648 9780826489630 082648963X 9781474211307 9781283122924 6613122920 Year: 2007 Publisher: London New York Continuum

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Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular and important today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and the social contrasts that characterised the Victorian era. His works are widely studied throughout the world both as literary masterpieces and as classic examples of the nineteenth century novel. Combining a biographical approach with close reading of the novels, Donald Hawes offers an illuminating portrait of Dickens as a writer and insight into his life and times. This book will provide a short, lively but sophisticated introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.

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