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Dickens and the Short Story
β Scribed by Deborah A. Thomas
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 208
- Edition
- Reprint 2016
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
Ranging from "flights of fancy" to literary masterpieces, Dickens' short stories contained artistic experiments that inspired fuller developments in his novels. Yet the short stories have been all but overlooked in critical discussions. Deborah A. Thomas focuses directly on this body of work, tracing three stages of development.
Ranging from "flights of fancy" to literary masterpieces, Dickens' short stories contained artistic experiments that inspired fuller developments in his novels. Yet the short stories have been all but overlooked in critical discussions. Deborah A. Thomas focuses directly on this body of work, tracing three stages of development.
β¦ Table of Contents
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Imaginative License
Chapter 2. Imaginative Overindulgence
Chapter 3. Storybooks in a Workaday World
Chapter 4. The Chord of the Christmas Season
Chapter 5. Public Entertainment
Chapter 6. Murder and Self-Effacement
Chapter 7. Unrestrained Invention
Appendix A. Contributors to the Christmas Numbers of Household Words and All the Year Round, 1850-67
Appendix B. Chronological Frame
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
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