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Charles Dickens : a very short introduction Jenny Hartley

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Very short introductionsPublication details: Oxford Oxford University Press, 2019Description: 130 pagesContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 978198714996
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PR4588.H365 CHA
Contents:
More -- Public and private -- Character and plot -- City Laureate -- Radical Dickens -- Dickensian
Summary: Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction explores the key themes running through his corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of 19th-century society and its institutions. It considers Dickens's multiple lives and careers: as magazine editor for much of his working life, as travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social causes. Finally, it discusses what is meant by the use of the term 'Dickensian' today, and the enduring impact of his work
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More -- Public and private -- Character and plot -- City Laureate -- Radical Dickens -- Dickensian

Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction explores the key themes running through his corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of 19th-century society and its institutions. It considers Dickens's multiple lives and careers: as magazine editor for much of his working life, as travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social causes. Finally, it discusses what is meant by the use of the term 'Dickensian' today, and the enduring impact of his work

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