Other Dickens

Pickwick to Chuzzlewit
Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-926140-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 240 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 350 g

In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional
terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and transforms our ways of understanding Dickens's work and his place in the history of the novel.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bowen, John

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

Dr John Bowen is Lecturer in English, University of Keele.