Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel - Fiction and Narrative in Dickens'' Work

Informationen zum Autor Daldry, Graham Zusammenfassung First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our understanding of the novels, to lead us to see them as failures of artistic unity. In this book the author seeks to address this question of unity and find a terminology that can treat language, plot and representation of reality as a coherent imaginative effort. This thesis is worked out in detail with reference to several of the novels, and represents a challenging re-evaluation Dickens’ achievement as a novelist. This book will be if interest to student of literature. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; 1: The Division of the Novel 2: The Novel as Fiction, I The Old Curiosity Shop 3: The Novel as Fiction, II Bleak House 4: The Novel as Narrative, I David Copperfield 5: The Novel as Narrative, II Great Expectations 6: Our Mutual Friend and the Art of the Possible; Select Bibliography; Index

Product details

• Authors: Graham Daldry, Daldry Graham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.07.2016
• EAN: 9781138672659
• ISBN: 978-1-138-67265-9
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel
• Subjects: 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 & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, LITERARY CRITICISM / Novel as Form