The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens)

The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: A. O. J. Cockshut

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1135027692

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This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in Dickens’ obsession with such topics as money, crowds and prisons which touch the life of everyone. From the deep fears of his childhood they became the main food for his imagination. As his creative mind worried over them, so his art developed. This process provided the driving force behind his work, and is at the root of his greatness as an artist.

The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens)

The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: A. O. J. Cockshut

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1135027706

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This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in Dickens’ obsession with such topics as money, crowds and prisons which touch the life of everyone. From the deep fears of his childhood they became the main food for his imagination. As his creative mind worried over them, so his art developed. This process provided the driving force behind his work, and is at the root of his greatness as an artist.

Martin Chuzzlewit (RLE Dickens)

Martin Chuzzlewit (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: Sylvere Monod

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 1135027536

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Although enjoyed my many as a masterpiece of Dickens’ comic writing, Martin Chuzzlewit has long been underrated by professional critics. This volume redresses the balance by devoting its attention to a full critical discussion of the novel and by including a full survey of the critical positions held in the past. As well as discussing the themes of selfishness and hypocrisy, the history of the text is also explored, as is the complex relationship between Dickens and the United States which played a great part in the development of the novel and exerted considerable influence on it early reception.

Dickens and the Twentieth Century (RLE Dickens)

Dickens and the Twentieth Century (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1134544278

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The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which have been neglected in recent years, such as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.

Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence (RLE Dickens)

Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: N M Lary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1134544626

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What did Dickens mean to Dostoevsky, and what did the Russian writer owe to England’s greatest entertainer? Many of Dickens’ readers, including George Gissing and Edmund Wilson, have recognized that his achievement needs to be compared with Dostoevsky’s, and they have suspected, or assumed an influence. N M Lary’s book shows what the literary influence really or probably was.

The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens)

The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens) PDF

Author: Louis Cazamian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 393

ISBN-13: 1135027730

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This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.

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