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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    05 August 2012
    02 September 2010
    ISBN:
    9780511780646
    9780521859141
    9780521676342
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780646
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.35kg, 134 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.23kg, 134 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Subjects:
    Literature, English Literature: General Interest, English Literature 1830-1900
    Series:
    Cambridge Introductions to Literature
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    Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London.

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