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- Examines the whole range of the author's work, including his journalism
Explores Dickens's writing in relation to the cultural contexts of the Victorian era, and the critical debates of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries
Deals with one of the most popular British authors of all time, whose works are studied throughout the world
Part of the book series: Critical Issues (CRTI)
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Table of contents (6 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
This wide-ranging book examines the writings of Dickens, not only in his time but also in ours. it looks at the author as a Victorian 'man of letters', and explores his cultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the nineteenth century and the subsequent development of the form in the twentieth. Lyn Pykett focuses on Dickens as journalist, literary entrepreneur, the conductor of magazines, the shaper of the serial novel, the manipulator of the multiple plot, and the creator of eccentric characters. She also assesses the modernity of the writer's alienated protagonists and their social environments, as well as reassessing his representations of the vivid, bleak and at times menacing spectacle of the metropolis, from the late modern/postmodern perspective of the twenty first century.
Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in one of the most popular, and enduring, British novelists of all time.
About the author
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Charles Dickens
Authors: Lyn Pykett
Series Title: Critical Issues
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1919-9
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: IX, 207
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Nineteenth-Century Literature