Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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The Works of Charles Dickens: Bleak house [1901?
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 920
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Pages : 920
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The Imperial edition [of the works of C. Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Pages : 540
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Savage Reprisals: Bleak House, Madame Bovary, Buddenbrooks
Author: Peter Gay
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334763X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334763X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
A revelatory work that examines the intricate relationship between history and literature, truth and fiction—with some surprising conclusions. Focusing on three literary masterpieces—Charles Dickens's Bleak House (1853), Gustave Flaubert's Madame Bovary (1857), and Thomas Mann's Buddenbrooks (1901)—Peter Gay, a leading cultural historian, demonstrates that there is more than one way to read a novel. Typically, readers believe that fiction, especially the Realist novels that dominated Western culture for most of the nineteenth century and beyond, is based on historical truth and that great novels possess a documentary value. That trust, Gay brilliantly shows, is misplaced; novels take their own path to reality. Using Dickens, Flaubert, and Mann as his examples, Gay explores their world, their craftsmanship, and their minds. In the process, he discovers that all three share one overriding quality: a resentment and rage against the society that sustains the novel itself. Using their stylish writing as a form of revenge, they deal out savage reprisals, which have become part of our Western literary canon. A New York Times Notable Book and a Best Book of 2002.
Charles Dickens
Author: George Gissing
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Languages : en
Pages : 334
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Pages : 334
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The Oxford India paper Dickens
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 726
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Pages : 726
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Charles Dickens' Complete Works
Author: Charles Dickens
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Languages : en
Pages : 972
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Pages : 972
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The works of Charles Dickens. Household ed. [22 vols. Orig. issued in monthly parts].
Author: Charles Dickens
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Pages : 0
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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens
Author: John O. Jordan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book 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.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107494192
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 353
Book 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.
The Cambridge Companion to the Victorian Novel
Author: Deirdre David
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005132
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
A new edition of this standard work, fully updated with four brand new chapters.
Charles Dickens's Bleak House
Author: Janice M. Allan
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415247726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This guidebook examines Dickens' novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.
Publisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 9780415247726
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
This guidebook examines Dickens' novel within its literary and cultural contexts providing an ideal orientation in the novel, its reception history and the critical material which surrounds it.