The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens Paperback / softback
Edited by John O. (University of California, Santa Cruz) Jordan
Part of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series
Paperback / softback
Description
The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction.
The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood.
Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology.
Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language.
Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film.
Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 15 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/06/2001
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- ISBN:9780521669641
Information
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:258 pages, 15 Halftones, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:18/06/2001
- Category:
- ISBN:9780521669641
