Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

✍ Scribed by John Bowen, Robert I. Patten (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2006
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 345
• Series: Palgrave Advances
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction....Pages 1-10
Publishing in Parts....Pages 11-47
Dickens and The Writing of a Life....Pages 48-68
Performing Character....Pages 69-89
Dickens and Plot....Pages 90-110
Visualizing Dickens....Pages 111-130
From Blood to Law: The Embarrassments of Family in Dickens....Pages 131-154
Reforming Culture....Pages 155-175
Dickens’s Reading Public....Pages 176-197
Politicized Dickens: The Journalism of the 1850s....Pages 198-215
Psychoanalyzing Dickens....Pages 216-233
Historicizing Dickens....Pages 234-254
Dickens and the Force of Writing....Pages 255-272
Back Matter....Pages 273-334

✦ Subjects

British and Irish Literature; Nineteenth-Century Literature; Fiction