By David Paroissien
ISBN-10: 1405130970
ISBN-13: 9781405130974
A significant other to Charles Dickens concentrates at the old, ideological, and social forces that outlined Dickens’s international.
- Puts Dickens’s paintings into its literary, historic, and social contexts
- Traces the advance of Dickens’s profession as a journalist and novelist
- Includes unique essays by means of top Dickensian students on each one of Dickens’s fifteen novels
- Explores a extensive variety of themes, together with criticisms of his novels, using heritage and legislation in his fiction, language, and the influence of political and social reform
- Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary fabrics that has been generated in reaction and reverence to his writing
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Within Warren’s, “Poll Green’s father had the . . ” Dickens’s own elder sister Fanny, while he was at work, attended the Royal Academy of Music. ” 24 Nicola Bradbury What emerges from the autobiographical fragment is a knot of history, confession, record, and performance. Equally potent are the psychological currents of anger and pride, utterance struggling with concealment. One such incident, counter-pointing bravado and vulnerability, is transposed into David Copperfield (ch. 11) where the boy “went into a public-house .
Ingham, Patricia (1992). Dickens, Women and Language. New York: Harvester Wheatsheaf. Marcus, Stephen (1965). Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. London: Chatto and Windus. Musselwhite, David E. (1987). Partings Welded Together: Politics and Desire in the Nineteenthcentury English Novel. London: Methuen. Slater, Michael (1983). Dickens and Women. London: Dent. Stonehouse, John Harrison (1931). Green Leaves: New Chapters in the Life of Charles Dickens, rev. edn. London: Piccadilly Fountain Press. Welsh, Alexander (1987).
Ably supported by his sub-editor, W. H. Wills, the running of his magazine was a major part of the routine of Dickens’s life throughout the 1850s and 1860s. And just as he had himself been introduced to journalism by his father, who during his career as a correspondent for the British Press had 14 Michael Allen encouraged Charles to bring in notices of accidents, fires, and police reports, for which he was paid a penny for each printed line, so too did Dickens pass the fascination on to his own son Charley, who eventually, after his father’s death, took over both ownership and editorship, which he held until 1888.
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