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The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens
- Title
- The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens / Jon Mee.
- Author
- Mee, Jon.
- Publication
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Details
- Description
- xvi, 115 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London"--
- Series Statement
- Cambridge introductions to literature
- Uniform Title
- Cambridge introductions to literature.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: Preface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.
- Call Number
- JFE 11-1557
- ISBN
- 9780521859141 (hc)
- 9780521676342 (pbk.)
- 052185914X (hc)
- 0521676347 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- 2010021908
- OCLC
- YBP 2010021908
- Author
- Mee, Jon.
- Title
- The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens / Jon Mee.
- Imprint
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- Series
- Cambridge introductions to literatureCambridge introductions to literature.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 11-1557