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9780521660167

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

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  • ISBN13:

    9780521660167

  • ISBN10:

    0521660165

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2001-07-02
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Summary

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations
ix
Notes on contributors xi
Notes on references and editions xiv
List of abbreviations
xv
Chronology xvi
Preface xix
John O. Jordan
The life and times of Charles Dickens
1(15)
Grahame Smith
From Sketches to Nickleby
16(18)
Robert L. Patten
The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield
34(15)
Kate Flint
Moments of decision in Bleak House
49(15)
J. Hillis Miller
Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities
64(14)
Hilary Schor
The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend
78(14)
Brian Cheadle
Fictions of childhood
92(14)
Robert Newsom
Fictions of the city
106(14)
Murray Baumgarten
Gender, family, and domestic ideology
120(16)
Catherine Waters
Dickens and language
136(16)
Garrett Stewart
Dickens and the form of the novel
152(15)
Nicola Bradbury
Dickens and illustration
167(22)
Richard L. Stein
Dickens and theatre
189(15)
John Glavin
Dickens and film
204(20)
Joss Marsh
Selected bibliography 224(6)
Index 230

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