Charles Dickens /

Charles Dickens /

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Author / Creator:Hawes, Donald.
Imprint:London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007.
Description:1 online resource (vi, 167 pages)
Language:English
Series:Writers' lives
Writers' lives (Continuum (Firm))
Subject:
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
Novelists, English.
Biographies.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11258444
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ISBN:9781441169181
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-164) and index.
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Summary:Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular 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 characterized 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. This book gives readers and students a short, lively but sophisticated introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written.
Other form:Print version: Hawes, Donald. Charles Dickens. London ; New York : Continuum, ©2007 9780826489647
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Abbreviations and References; Introduction; 1. Why We Read Dickens; 2. Life of Dickens; 3. Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist; 4. Dickens s London; 5. Social Class in Victorian England; 6. Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge; 7. Prison and Crime; 8. Dickens and Education; 9. Medicine, Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals; 10. Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son; 11. Women and Children; 12. Dickens and Animals; 13. David Copperfield, Bleak House; 14. Dickens's Comic Characters and Villains.
  • 15. Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities16. Theatre and Entertainment; 17. Dickens and Christmas; 18. Dickens's Public Readings; 19. Dickens's Friends and Contemporaries; 20. Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood; 21. Adaptations and Versions of Dickens's Writings; Further Reading; Bibliography; Index.

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