Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Reprinted Pieces and the Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices
Author: Charles Dickens
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Publisher:
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Category : English fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 450
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Puzzling the Reader
Author: Gregg A. Hecimovich
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
Old Leaves: Gathered from Household Words
Author: William Henry Wills
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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Languages : en
Pages : 492
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A Curious Dance Round a Curious Tree
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 19
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Languages : en
Pages : 19
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The Speeches of Charles Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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Languages : en
Pages : 390
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The Magnificent Library of A.S. Whiton...embracing a Very Important Collection of First Editions of Thackeray, Dickens, Lover & Lever, Many in the Original Parts as Issued, & in the Original Cloth
Author: A. S. Whiton
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Languages : en
Pages : 212
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Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Languages : en
Pages : 934
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Dickens, Death, and Christmas
Author: Robert L. Patten
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192862669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? Robert L. Patten weaves together Dickens's life, career, writings, journalism, travel, theatrical presentations, and religious convictions to offer a richly designed and entertaining narrative, fulsomely illustrated, of the manifold ways Dickensfigures the spirit and traditions of the winter holidays in Victorian England.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192862669
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 369
Book Description
"Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? Robert L. Patten weaves together Dickens's life, career, writings, journalism, travel, theatrical presentations, and religious convictions to offer a richly designed and entertaining narrative, fulsomely illustrated, of the manifold ways Dickensfigures the spirit and traditions of the winter holidays in Victorian England.
Anniversary Exhibition at the Boston Art Club
Author: Club of Odd Volumes
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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Languages : en
Pages : 86
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The Dickensian
Author: Bertram Waldrom Matz
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Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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