Author: Harvey Peter Sucksmith
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Harvey Peter Sucksmith
Publisher:
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Harvey Peter Sucksmith
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Languages : en
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Author: Graham Daldry
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317204093
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 214

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First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our understanding of the novels, to lead us to see them as failures of artistic unity. In this book the author seeks to address this question of unity and find a terminology that can treat language, plot and representation of reality as a coherent imaginative effort. This thesis is worked out in detail with reference to several of the novels, and represents a challenging re-evaluation Dickens’ achievement as a novelist. This book will be if interest to student of literature.

Author: Harvey Peter Sucksmith
Publisher: Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Based on author's thesis, University of Nottingham.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781495438097
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 26

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The Ghost of Art and The Child's Story are short stories by Charles Dickens.Charles John Huffam Dickens (7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's most memorable fictional characters and is generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian period. During his life, his works enjoyed unprecedented fame, and by the twentieth century his literary genius was broadly acknowledged by critics and scholars. His novels and short stories continue to be widely popular.Born in Portsmouth, England, Dickens was forced to leave school to work in a factory when his father was thrown into debtors' prison. Although he had little formal education, his early impoverishment drove him to succeed. Over his career he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas and hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.Dickens sprang to fame with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly installments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. The installment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens went on to improve the character with positive features. Fagin in Oliver Twist apparently mirrors the famous fence Ikey Solomon; His caricature of Leigh Hunt in the figure of Mr Skimpole in Bleak House was likewise toned down on advice from some of his friends, as they read episodes. In the same novel, both Lawrence Boythorne and Mooney the beadle are drawn from real life—Boythorne from Walter Savage Landor and Mooney from 'Looney', a beadle at Salisbury Square.

Author: Frederic George Kitton
Publisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 288

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"Dickens and His Illustrators" by Frederic George Kitton Frederick George Kitton was a British wood-engraver, author, and illustrator. He is best known for illustrating and editing the works of Charles Dickens. In this book, Kitton lists various illustrations he worked with Dickens on, including anecdotes of their collaborations together to help bring the great English writer's work to real life for readers.

Author: Malcolm Andrews
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 360

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Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.

Author: Barbara Hardy
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0567620301
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 170

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Professor Barbara Hardy is a noted critic of nineteenth-century fiction but her essays on Dickens have hitherto been scattered widely among critical journals and anthologies. The seven studies she has here collected, introduced, and in part revised, together make up a sustained exploration of the moral concern which informs the novelist's work and gives to his portrayal of society and the individual its unique quality. A general discussion of the moral nature of Dickens' art leads to a study of patterns of change and conversion and this in turn to a close examination of four representative novels: Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations.

Author: Hillel Matthew Daleski
Publisher: Schocken Books Incorporated
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 362

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By means of a detailed critical analysis of eight novels, this study traces Dicken's development as an artist. The author discusses novels which he considers to be representative of various stages in Dicken's development, paying particular to Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, which his view constitute one of the supreme achievements in the English novel of the nineteenth century. -- Publisher description.