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Charles Dickens - An Introduction (Hardcover)
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Charles Dickens - An Introduction (Hardcover)
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Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's
best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the
greatest novelist of the Victorian age. Even before reading the
works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or
another. His characters have such vitality that they have leapt
from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Artful
Dodger, Miss Havisham, Scrooge, Fagin, Mr Micawber, and many many
more. His portrait has been in our pockets, on our ten-pound notes;
he is a national icon, indeed himself a generator of what
Englishness signifies. In this book Jenny Hartley explores the key
themes running through Dickens's corpus of works, and considers how
they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of
nineteenth century society and its institutions, such as the
workhouses and prisons. Running alonside this is Dickens's relish
of the carnivalesque; if there is a prison in almost every novel,
there is also a theatre. She considers Dickens's multiple lives and
careers: as magazine editor for two thirds of his working life, as
travel writer and journalist, and his work on behalf of social
causes including ragged schools and fallen women. She also shows
how his public readings enthralled the readers he wanted to reach
but also helped to kill him. Finally, Hartley considers what we
mean when we use the term 'Dickensian' today, and how Dickens's
enduring legacy marks him out as as a novelist different in kind
from others.
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