The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge by John O. Jordan

By John O. Jordan

The Cambridge significant other to Charles Dickens includes fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by way of top foreign students, who jointly supply different yet complementary techniques to the total span of Dickens's paintings, with specific specialize in his significant fiction. The essays conceal the total variety of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by means of Boz during the secret of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters handle vital thematic themes: formative years, the town, and household ideology. Others think of formal good points of the novels, together with their serial e-book and Dickens's certain use of language. 3 ultimate chapters learn Dickens with regards to paintings in different media: representation, theatre, and picture. every one essay offers tips to extra interpreting. the amount as a complete bargains a necessary advent to Dickens for college kids and common readers, in addition to clean insights, proficient by means of contemporary severe conception, that might be of curiosity to students and lecturers of the novels.

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