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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury
Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a
powerful and sometimes violent novel of expectation, love,
oppression, sin, religion and betrayal. It portrays the
disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon, the mysterious
'tenant' of the title, and her dissolute, alcoholic husband.
Defying convention, Helen leaves her husband to protect their young
son from his father's influence, and earns her own living as an
artist. Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall, she encounters Gilbert
Markham, who falls in love with her. On its first publication in
1848, Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being 'coarse'
and 'brutal'. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social
conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of
women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their
husbands. Anne Bronte's style is bold, naturalistic and passionate,
and this novel, which her sister Charlotte considered 'an entire
mistake', has earned Anne a position in English literature in her
own right, not just as the youngest member of the Bronte family.
This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second
edition in the Library of the Bronte Parsonage Museum and has been
edited to correct known errors in that edition.
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A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback, Reissue)
Charles Dickens; Illustrated by Hablot K. Browne (Phiz); Introduction by Peter Merchant; Notes by Peter Merchant; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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A Tale of Two Cities (1859), Dickens' greatest historical novel,
traces the private lives of a group of people caught up in the
cataclysm of the French Revolution and the Terror. Dickens based
his historical detail on Carlyle's great work - The French
Revolution. 'The best story I have written' was Dickens' own
verdict on A Tale of Two Cities, and the reader is unlikely to
disagree with this judgement of a story which combines historical
fact with the author's unsurpassed genius for poignant tales of
human suffering, self-sacrifice, and redemption.
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional
capacities associated with children have always been sites of
lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens
and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of
the child and childhood within Dickens's imagination and reflect on
the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of
the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic
type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian
child that is followed by discussions of specific children in
Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on
the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the
various ways in which the child's-eye view was reabsorbed into
Dickens's mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon
reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of
childhood experience; from Dickens's childhood reading of tales of
adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his
novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings
alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad's Hill
Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the
remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by
Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative
creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David
Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens's novels-comes to
think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon
the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through
his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish
things.
The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional
capacities associated with children have always been sites of
lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens
and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of
the child and childhood within Dickens's imagination and reflect on
the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of
the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic
type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian
child that is followed by discussions of specific children in
Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on
the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the
various ways in which the child's-eye view was reabsorbed into
Dickens's mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon
reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of
childhood experience; from Dickens's childhood reading of tales of
adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his
novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings
alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad's Hill
Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the
remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by
Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative
creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David
Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens's novels-comes to
think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon
the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through
his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish
things.
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The Way We Live Now (Paperback, New edition)
Anthony Trollope; Introduction by Peter Merchant; Notes by Peter Merchant; Series edited by Keith Carabine
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With an Introduction and Notes by Peter Merchant. Canterbury Christ
Church College. The tough-mindedness of the social satire in and
its air of palpable integrity give this novel a special place in
Anthony Trollope's Literary career. Trollope paints a picture as
panoramic as his title promises, of the life of 1870s London, the
loves of those drawn to and through the city, and the career of
Augustus Melmotte. Melmotte is one of the Victorian novel's
greatest and strangest creations, and is an achievement undimmed by
the passage of time. Trollope's 'Now' might, in the twenty-first
century, look like some distant disenchanted 'Then', but this is
still the yesterday which we must understand in order to make
proper sense of our today.
'Vice Versa' shows the disastrous consequences of having one's
wishes granted where a father and son swap places. The father has
to endure his son's boarding school and the son gets the
opportunity to run his father's business."
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