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A Companion to Charles Dickens

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A Companion to Charles Dickens Synopsis

A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens's world.

  • Puts Dickens's work into its literary, historical, and social contexts
  • Traces the development of Dickens's career as a journalist and novelist
  • Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens's fifteen novels
  • Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform
  • Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing

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ISBN: 9780470657942
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Author: David Paroissien
Publisher: Wiley Blackwell an imprint of Wiley
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 515 pages
Series: Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture
Genres: Literature: history and criticism