Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

2006. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4039-1286-2
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan UK

Buch, Englisch, 334 Seiten, Format (B × H): 141 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 422 g

Reihe: Palgrave Advances

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Patten, R.

Bowen, J.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Bowen& R.L.Patten Publishing in Parts; R.L.Patten Dickens and the Writing of a Life; R.Bodenheimer Performing Character; M.Andrews Dickens and Plot; H.M.Schor Visualizing Dickens; J.Sutherland From Blood to Law: the Embarrassments of Family in Dickens; H.Michie Reforming Culture; C.Waters Dickens's Reading Public; D.Vincent Politicized Dickens: The Journalism of the 1850s; J.Childers Psychoanalyzing Dickens; C.Dever Historicising Dickens; C.Robson Dickens and the Force of Writing; J.Bowen Timeline; I.Wilkinson Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

MALCOLM ANDREWS University of Kent, UK
ROSEMARIE BODENHEIMER Boston College, USA
JOSEPH CHILDERS University of California, Riverside, USA
CAROLYN DEVER Vanderbilt University, USA
HELENA MICHIE Rice University, USA
CATHERINE ROBSON University of California, Davis, USA
HILARY M. SCHOR University of Southern California, USA
JOHN SUTHERLAND University College London, UK
DAVID VINCENT Open University, UK and visiting fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, UK
CATHERINE WATERS University of New England, Australia
IAN WILKINSON Keele University, UK