Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens)
Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens)

Author: John Butt & Kathleen Tillotson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 255

ISBN-13: 1134544065

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This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens’ detailed manuscript notes for novels, with a complete transcript of these for every instalment and chapter of David Copperfield. Seven other books are chosen, so that the different stages of his career and different kinds of work are well represented. The volume illustrates what modes of planning Dickens evolved as best suited to his genius and to the demands of serial publication, monthly or weekly; how he responded to the events of the day; and how he yet managed to combine the freshness of this "periodical", almost journalistic approach with the art of the novel.

The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)
The Companion to Our Mutual Friend (RLE Dickens)

Author: Michael Cotsell

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1135027668

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Our Mutual Friend (1864-5) Dickens’ last completed novel, has been critically praised as a profound and troubled masterpiece, and yet is has received far less scholarly attention than his other major works. This volume is the first book-length study of the novel. It explores every aspect of Dickens’ sustained imaginative involvement with his age. In particular its original research into hitherto neglected sources reveals not only Dickens’ reactions to the important developments during the 1860s in education, finance and the administration of poverty, but also his interest in phenomena as diverse as waste collection and the Shakespeare tercentenary. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend demonstrates the varied resources of artistry that inform the novel, and it provides the reader with a fundamental source of information about one of Dickens’ most complex works.

The Dickens Encyclopaedia (RLE Dickens)
The Dickens Encyclopaedia (RLE Dickens)

Author: Arthur L. Hayward

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-06-17

Total Pages: 478

ISBN-13: 1135027579

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This is the standard reference guide to the works of Charles Dickens. The material is arranged alphabetically, in dictionary style, and provides a quick means of reference to the plots of the novels and to all the characters and places mentioned in the novels. There are also useful explanatory notes on allusions and phrases.

Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens)
Dickens at Work (RLE Dickens)

Author: John Butt

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1134543999

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This book marks a new departure in the study of Dickens. The authors make use of first-hand evidence of Dickens’ actual methods and conditions of work; much of this evidence is examined and co-ordinated here for the first time. It includes Dickens’ detailed manuscript notes for novels, with a complete transcript of these for every instalment and chapter of David Copperfield. Seven other books are chosen, so that the different stages of his career and different kinds of work are well represented. The volume illustrates what modes of planning Dickens evolved as best suited to his genius and to the demands of serial publication, monthly or weekly; how he responded to the events of the day; and how he yet managed to combine the freshness of this "periodical", almost journalistic approach with the art of the novel.

Dickens and the Twentieth Century (RLE Dickens)
Dickens and the Twentieth Century (RLE Dickens)

Author: John Gross

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 271

ISBN-13: 1134544278

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The essays in this volume examine questions such as Dickens’ symbolism, his political attitudes, his psychological tensions and his artistry. They are also concerned with aspects of Dickens which have been neglected in recent years, such as his handling of plot, his heroes and heroines, his journalism, his religious view and his philistinism.

Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence (RLE Dickens)
Dostoevsky and Dickens: A Study of Literary Influence (RLE Dickens)

Author: N M Lary

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-10-16

Total Pages: 165

ISBN-13: 1134544626

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What did Dickens mean to Dostoevsky, and what did the Russian writer owe to England’s greatest entertainer? Many of Dickens’ readers, including George Gissing and Edmund Wilson, have recognized that his achievement needs to be compared with Dostoevsky’s, and they have suspected, or assumed an influence. N M Lary’s book shows what the literary influence really or probably was.

The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens)
The Social Novel in England 1830-1850 (RLE Dickens)

Author: Louis Cazamian

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 383

ISBN-13: 1135027749

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This is the first English translation of Le Roman social en Angleterre by Louis Cazamian, which is widely recognized as the classic survey of Victorian social fiction. Starting from the eighteenth century, Cazamian traces the ways in which rationalism and romanticism intertwined and competed, particularly in relation to radical political philosophy. He shows how industrialization polarized England, setting the industrial bourgeoisie in the van of progress in the first decades of the nineteenth century, until their political and economic triumph stirred up a passionate reaction against them. This reaction propelled novelists such as Charles Dickens who lies at the centre of his discussion. For this translation Martin Fido has provided a substantial foreword, and has revised and completed the bibliographical references and corrected the footnotes to assist the present-day reader.

The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens)
The Imagination of Charles Dickens (RLE Dickens)

Author: A. O. J. Cockshut

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 1135027706

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This book describes Charles Dickens as an ordinary man who by being perfectly tuned to the public taste developed into a master of his art. The clue to this paradox lies, in the author’s opinion, in Dickens’ obsession with such topics as money, crowds and prisons which touch the life of everyone. From the deep fears of his childhood they became the main food for his imagination. As his creative mind worried over them, so his art developed. This process provided the driving force behind his work, and is at the root of his greatness as an artist.

Martin Chuzzlewit (RLE Dickens)
Martin Chuzzlewit (RLE Dickens)

Author: Sylvere Monod

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 1135027544

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Although enjoyed my many as a masterpiece of Dickens’ comic writing, Martin Chuzzlewit has long been underrated by professional critics. This volume redresses the balance by devoting its attention to a full critical discussion of the novel and by including a full survey of the critical positions held in the past. As well as discussing the themes of selfishness and hypocrisy, the history of the text is also explored, as is the complex relationship between Dickens and the United States which played a great part in the development of the novel and exerted considerable influence on it early reception.

The Life and Work of Charles Dickens
The Life and Work of Charles Dickens

Author: G. K. Chesterton

Publisher: e-artnow

Published: 2019-06-03

Total Pages: 327

ISBN-13:

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Charles Dickens was an English writer and social critic, widely recognized as a literary genius. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. G. K. Chesterton took great interest in the literature of Charles Dickens, writing several books concerning his life and his works: Charles Dickens – Biographical Sketch Charles Dickens – Critical Study Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens