The Violent Effigy - A Study of Dickens' Imagination

Informationen zum Autor John Carey is an Emeritus Professor at Oxford University. His books include studies of Donne, Dickens and Thackeray, The Intellectuals and the Masses , What Good Are the Arts? and a life of William Golding. Klappentext An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens' imagination. It shows how Dickens demolished Victorian shams! while keeping at bay the terrors of his fantasy. It also shows Dickens torn between the appeal of violence and a fanatical orderliness. It celebrates Dickens' peculiar genius for renewing the world by the curious lights he saw in it. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the strange poetry of Dickens's imagination by leading academic and critic John Carey. Setting aside the usual interpretations of Dickens's work, A Violent Effigy delves into the wonderful, terrible fantasy world it inhabited.

Product details

• Authors: John Carey, Professor John Carey, Carey John
• Assisted by: Joh Carey (Editor), John Carey (Editor)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780571247790
• ISBN: 978-0-571-24779-0
• No. of pages: 184
• Dimensions: 135 mm x 216 mm x 13 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Main work before 1945; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Faber Finds; Gothic; Symbolism; Victorian; Writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form