| Description |
1 online resource (xvi, 115 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge introductions to literature
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Cambridge introductions to literature.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 101-111) and index. |
| Contents |
Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed' -- Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay' -- Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London' -- Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it' -- Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'. |
| Summary |
"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"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Literary style.
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Literary style. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Knowledge and learning -- London (England)
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Political and social views.
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Political and social views. |
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Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Adaptations.
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| Genre/Form |
Adaptations.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic books.
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Adaptations.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mee, Jon. Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010 9780521859141 (DLC) 2010021908 (OCoLC)636911412 |
| ISBN |
9781139776042 (electronic book) |
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1139776045 (electronic book) |
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113978207X (electronic book) |
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9781139782074 (electronic book) |
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9780511780646 (electronic book) |
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0511780648 (electronic book) |
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9781139779081 |
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1139779087 |
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1283715848 |
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9781283715843 |
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9780521859141 |
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052185914X |
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9780521676342 |
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0521676347 |
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