David Copperfield and Hard Times

The new critical approaches that have swept through literary criticism in recent years have transformed our sense of David Copperfield and Hard Times . There is now a new kind of understanding of how both novels emerge from and relate to the 1850''s. In collecting together the most original and exciting, innovative work on David Copperfield and Hard Times , this New Casebook offers the reader an excellent and unique introduction to current critical thinking about Dickens.>

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Acknowledgements
General Editors' Preface
Introduction; J.Peck
Cookery, not Rookery: Family and Class in David Copperfield; C.R. Vanden
Bossche David Copperfield: The Decomposing Self; S.Edwards
The Man-of-Letters Hero: David Copperfield and the Professional Writer; M.Poovey
The Lost Self: Gender in David Copperfield; M.Myers
'In Search of Beein': Nom/Non du Pere in David Copperfield; V.Carmichael
Self-Conflict in David Copperfield; J.Kucich
Deconstructing Dickens: Hard Times; S.Connor
Family and Society in Hard Times; C.Gallagher
Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times, and Feminine Discourses; J.Ferguson Carr Wonderful
No-Meaning: Language and the Psychopathology of the Family in Hard Times; R.Fabrizio
Further Reading
Notes on Contributors
Index.

Info autore

John Peck

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: John Peck
• Con la collaborazione di: Joh Peck (Editore), John Peck (Editore)
• Editore: Macmillan
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 20.03.1995
• EAN: 9780333598825
• ISBN: 978-0-333-59882-5
• Pagine: 271
• Serie: New Casebooks; New Casebooks (Paperback); New Casebooks
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata