Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

Klappentext The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers. Zusammenfassung The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Chronology; List of abbreviations and texts; Preface John O. Jordan; 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith; 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten; 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint; 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller; 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities Hilary Schor; 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle; 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom; 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten; 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters; 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart; 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury; 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein; 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin; 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh; Selected bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: John O. Jordan, Professor John O. Jordan
• Assisted by: Jordan John O. (Editor), John O. Jordan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.07.2001
• EAN: 9780521660167
• ISBN: 978-0-521-66016-7
• No. of pages: 260
• Series: Cambridge Companions to Litera
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies