Author: Joseph Gold
Publisher: Published for University of Manitoba Press by University of Toronto Press
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 286

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Author: James Russell Kincaid
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
ISBN:
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 284

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Kincaid argues that the funny Dickens and the "dark" Dickens are one, and that our response to his humour is no less important is Little Dorrit than in Pickwick.

Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: Miriam Margolyes
Publisher: Hesperus Press
ISBN: 1780940866
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 87

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A captivating portrait of some of Charles DickensOCO most memorable female characters presented by popular actress Miriam Margolyes to accompany her hugely successful one-woman show touring the world in 2012. In his novels Dickens presents a series of unrivalled portraits of women, young and old. From Little Nell to Miss Havisham, these girls and women speak to us today, making us laugh and sometimes cry. The popular British actress Miriam Margolyes will be touring the world in 2012, the bicentenary of Dickens birth, with a one-woman show about DickensOCO women, and this book accompanies the show by building on the script and expanding to include many more of the female characters Dickens described and analysed so astutely in his novels. ?Mrs Pipchin was a marvellous ill-favoured, ill-conditioned old lady, of a stooping figure, with a mottled face, like bad marble, a hook nose, and a hard grey eye, that looked as if it might have been hammered at on an anvil without sustaining any injury.OCO"

Author: Laurence W. Mazzeno
Publisher: Camden House
ISBN: 9781571133175
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Undoubtedly the best-selling author of his day and well loved by readers in succeeding generations, Charles Dickens was not always a favorite among critics. Celebrated for his novels advocating social reform, for half a century after his death he was ridiculed by those academics who condescended to write about him. Only the faithful band of devotees who called themselves Dickensians kept alive an interest in his work. Then, during the Second World War, he was resurrected by critics, and was soon being hailed as the foremost writer of his age, a literary genius alongside Shakespeare and Milton. More recently, Dickens has again been taken to task by a new breed of literary theorists who fault his chauvinism and imperialist attitudes. Whether he has been adored or despised, however, one thing is certain: no other Victorian novelist has generated more critical commentary. This book traces Dickens's reputation from the earliest reviews through the work of early 21st-century commentators, showing how judgments of Dickens changed with new standards for evaluating fiction. Mazzeno balances attention to prominent critics from the late 19th century through the first three quarters of the 20th with an emphasis on the past three decades, during which literary theory has opened up new ways of reading Dickens. What becomes clear is that, in attempting to provide fresh insight into Dickens's writings, critics often reveal as much about the predilections of their own age as they do about the novelist. Laurence W. Mazzeno is President Emeritus of Alvernia University, Reading, Pennsylvania.

Author: Jane R. Cohen
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
ISBN: 0814202845
Category : Illustration of books
Languages : en
Pages : 330

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 598

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Author: Norman Page
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1349060046
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 374

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 352

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Author: Charles Dickens
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 154

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