The Cambridge Companion to Charles DickensJohn O. Jordan, Jordan John O., Cambridge University Press Cambridge University Press, 2001 M06 18 - 235 pages The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole 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. |
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User Review - cpg - LibraryThingA mixed bag I've read all of Dickens' novels and take a back seat to no one in my appreciation of them, but I found this Cambridge Companion less than completely satisfying. Several of the authors did ... Read full review
Contents
The life and times of Charles Dickens | 1 |
From Sketches to Nickleby | 16 |
The middle novels Chuzzlewit Dombey and Copperfield | 34 |
Moments of decision in Bleak House | 49 |
Novels of the 1850s Hard Times Little Dorrit and A Tale of Two Cities | 64 |
The late novels Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend | 78 |
Fictions of childhood | 92 |
Fictions of the city | 106 |
Gender family and domestic ideology | 120 |
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| Title | The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens Cambridge Companions to Literature Cambridge collections online Cambridge companions to |
| Editors | John O. Jordan, Jordan John O., Cambridge University Press |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press, 2001 |
| ISBN | 0521669642, 9780521669641 |
| Length | 235 pages |
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