Sensation and Sublimation in Charles Dickens

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-349-29343-8
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan

Buch, Englisch, 226 Seiten, Format (B × H): 139 mm x 215 mm, Gewicht: 308 g

This book explores three crucial stages in Dickens' on-going voyage of discovery into what has been called the 'hidden springs' of his fiction; arguing that in three of Dickens best known novels, we witness Dickens responding to some identifiable force represented as coming from underneath the ground plan of the book in question.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gordon, J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Prosa, Erzählung, Roman, Prosaautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

What Right Have They to Butcher Me?' 'Thankee, Mum,' said Toodle, 'Since You Are Suppressing' 'In a Thick Crowd of Sounds, but Still Intelligibly Enough to be Understood' 'Is Esther Pretty?' and Nine Other Questions About Bleak House

Über Autor(innen)

JOHN GORDON is Professor of English at Connecticut College, USA.