Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens

  1. 176 pages
  2. English
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Charles Dickens

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Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular and important today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and the social contrasts that characterised the Victorian era. His works are widely studied throughout the world both as literary masterpieces and as classic examples of the nineteenth century novel. Combining a biographical approach with close reading of the novels, Donald Hawes offers an illuminating portrait of Dickens as a writer and insight into his life and times. Thisbook will provide a short, lively but sophisticated introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.

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Publisher
Continuum
Year
2007
ISBN
9781441169181
Edition
1
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
Literary Biographies
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. Abbreviations and References
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. Why We Read Dickens
  9. 2. Life of Dickens
  10. 3. Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist
  11. 4. Dickens s London
  12. 5. Social Class in Victorian England
  13. 6. Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge
  14. 7. Prison and Crime
  15. 8. Dickens and Education
  16. 9. Medicine, Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals
  17. 10. Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son
  18. 11. Women and Children
  19. 12. Dickens and Animals
  20. 13. David Copperfield, Bleak House
  21. 14. Dickens's Comic Characters and Villains
  22. 15. Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities
  23. 16. Theatre and Entertainment
  24. 17. Dickens and Christmas
  25. 18. Dickens’s Public Readings
  26. 19. Dickens’s Friends and Contemporaries
  27. 20. Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood
  28. 21. Adaptations and Versions of Dickens's Writings
  29. Further Reading
  30. Bibliography
  31. Index