The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens /
"Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Di...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
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Colección: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xvi, 115 pages) : illustrations |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-111) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781139776042 1139776045 113978207X 9781139782074 9780511780646 0511780648 9781139779081 1139779087 1283715848 9781283715843 1316088049 9781316088043 1139793462 9781139793469 1107253845 9781107253841 1139777564 9781139777568 |