Paroissien, David
A Companion to Charles Dickens
A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.
- Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts
- Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist
- Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels
- Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform
- Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
Keywords: LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh LIT004120
- Author(s)
- Paroissien, David
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2008
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 536 pages
- Category
- Litterary Studies
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780470691229
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405130974
