Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens

Informationen zum Autor Jon Mee was educated at Newcastle University and the University of Cambridge. After a Junior Research Fellowship at Jesus College, Oxford, he took up his first permanent position at the Australian National University. He returned to the University of Oxford to take up the Margaret Candfield Fellowship in English at University College and a post in the Oxford English Faculty. He moved to the University of Warwick in 2007 and then took his current position as Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies at the University of York in October 2013. Klappentext A lively and accessible introduction for general readers, students, teachers, and academics.This book offers a lively and accessible introduction to the wonderful diversity of Dickens for general readers, students, teachers, and academics. Covering key topics from Dickens and language to TV and film adaptations, it places the greatest English novelist in the context of the dizzying expansion of Victorian London. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.

Product details

• Authors: Jon Mee, Jon (Professor Mee, Mee Jon
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.09.2010
• EAN: 9780521859141
• ISBN: 978-0-521-85914-1
• No. of pages: 134
• Series: Cambridge Introductions to Lit; Cambridge Introductions to Literature
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; English, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers