The Dickensian

The Dickensian PDF Author: Bertram Waldrom Matz
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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The Dickensian

The Dickensian PDF Author: Bertram Waldrom Matz
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Languages : en
Pages : 408

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The Actor in Dickens

The Actor in Dickens PDF Author: J. B. van Amerongen
Publisher: Ardent Media
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Languages : en
Pages : 328

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Becoming Dickens

Becoming Dickens PDF Author: Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 0674072235
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400

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Becoming Dickens tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. In following the twists and turns of Charles Dickens’s early career, Robert Douglas-Fairhurst examines a remarkable double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel. It was a high-stakes gamble, and Dickens never forgot how differently things could have turned out. Like the hero of Dombey and Son, he remained haunted by “what might have been, and what was not.” In his own lifetime, Dickens was without rivals. He styled himself simply “The Inimitable.” But he was not always confident about his standing in the world. From his traumatized childhood to the suicide of his first collaborator and the sudden death of the woman who had a good claim to being the love of his life, Dickens faced powerful obstacles. Before settling on the profession of novelist, he tried his hand at the law and journalism, considered a career in acting, and even contemplated emigrating to the West Indies. Yet with The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and a groundbreaking series of plays, sketches, and articles, he succeeded in turning every potential breakdown into a breakthrough. Douglas-Fairhurst’s provocative new biography, focused on the 1830s, portrays a restless and uncertain Dickens who could not decide on the career path he should take and would never feel secure in his considerable achievements.

Macmillan's Magazine

Macmillan's Magazine PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 550

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Macmillan's Magazine

Macmillan's Magazine PDF Author: David Masson
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Category : English periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 550

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The Cambridge History of English Literature

The Cambridge History of English Literature PDF Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 626

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The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. II

The Cambridge History of English Literature: The nineteenth century. II PDF Author: Sir Adolphus William Ward
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 638

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The Cambridge history of English literature

The Cambridge history of English literature PDF Author:
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Languages : en
Pages : 632

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Life Writing and Victorian Culture

Life Writing and Victorian Culture PDF Author: David Amigoni
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351922246
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 321

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In this collection of interdisciplinary essays, experts from Britain and the United States in the fields of nineteenth-century literature, and social and cultural history explore new directions in the field of Victorian life writing. Chapters examine a varied yet interrelated range of genres, from the biography and autobiography, to the relatively neglected diary, collective biography, and obituary. Reflecting the rich research being conducted in this area, the contributors link life writing to the formation of gendered and class-based identities; the politics of the Victorian family; and the broader professional, political, colonial, and literary structures in which social and kinship relations were implicated. A wide variety of Victorian works are considered, from the diary of the Radical Samuel Bamford, to the diary of the homosexual George Ives; from autobiographies of professional men to collective biographies of eminent women. Embracing figures as diverse as Gandhi, Wilde, and Bradlaugh, the collection explores the way in which narratives contested one another in a society that devoted an abundance of cultural energy to writing about, and reading of, lives.

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature

Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature PDF Author: Kara K. Keeling
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135893004
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 476

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Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature is the first scholarly volume on the topic, connecting children's literature to the burgeoning discipline of food studies. Following the lead of historians like Mark Kurlansky, Jeffrey Pilcher and Massimo Montanari, who use food as a fundamental node for understanding history, the essays in this volume present food as a multivalent signifier in children’s literature, and make a strong argument for its central place in literature and literary theory. Written by some of the most respected scholars in the field, the essays between these covers tackle texts from the nineteenth century (Rudyard Kipling’s Kim) to the contemporary (Dave Pilkey’s Captain Underpants series), the U.S. multicultural (Asian-American) to the international (Ireland, Brazil, Mexico). Spanning genres such as picture books, chapter books, popular media, and children’s cookbooks, contributors utilize a variety of approaches, including archival research, cultural studies, formalism, gender studies, post-colonialism, post-structuralism, race studies, structuralism, and theology. Innovative and wide-ranging, Critical Approaches to Food in Children’s Literature provides us with a critical opportunity to puzzle out the significance of food in children’s literature.