 A Companion to Charles Dickens
ISBN: 978-1-4051-3097-4
Hardcover
536 pages
February 2008, Wiley-Blackwell
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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
* 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
