Charles Dickens

Goodheart, Eugene, (ed.).

Summary: A collection of essays relating to the life and writings of Charles Dickens.

Record details

ISBN: 9781587656910
ISBN: 1587656914
Physical Description: 412 p. : col. ill. ; 23 cm.
Publisher: Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, 2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Career, life, and influence. On Charles Dickens / Eugene Goodheart ; Biography of Charles Dickens / Patricia Marks ; The Paris Review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport for The Paris Review -- Critical contexts. Charles Dickens in his times/ Shanyn Fiske ; Charles Dickens's critical reputation / Laurence W. Mazzeno ; Order in disorder : surrealism and Oliver Twist / Nancy M. West -- Critical readings. Another version of pastoral : Oliver Twist / Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. ; Mourning becomes David : loss and the Victorian restoration of young Copperfield / Alan P. Barr ; Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield / Julia F. Saville ; Expectations well lost : Dickens' fable for his time / G. Robert Stange ; The sense of self / Monroe Engel ; Structure and idea in Bleak house / Robert A. Donovan ; "True legitimacy" : the myth of the foundling in Bleak House / Michele S. Ware ; Hard times and the structure of industrialism : the novel as factory / Patricia E. Johnson ; Little Dorrit / Lionel Trilling ; Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and the origins of modernism / Matthew J. Bolton Resources. Chronology of Charles Dickens's life ; Works by Charles Dickens.