The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-07252-0
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 276 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 381 g

This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats.  Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens’s debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens’s novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to express his responses to the exponential growth of post-revolutionary industrial, technological culture and its effects on personal life and relationships. In this close study of Dickensian Romanticism, Cook demonstrates the enduring relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cook, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Childhood.- Chapter 3: Time.- Chapter 4: Progress.- Chapter 5: Outsiders.- Chapter 6: Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Peter Cook is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. His publications cover a wide range of interests, from the Romantics to Ted Hughes.