Dickens and Creativity

by Hardy, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9780826495266
• ISBN10: 0826495265
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

Summary

This monograph covers Dickens and creativity, analysing both his discussion of creativity and imagination and illustrations in his work.

Table of Contents

A Career and its Context	p. 1
Dickens Discusses Creativity	p. 19
The Awareness of Art in Sketches By Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop and The Chimes	p. 31
The Artist as Narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great Expectations	p. 45
Talkative Men and Women in Pickwick Papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit	p. 61
Imaginative Extremes, Negations and Norms	p. 71
Subversions and Oppositions	p. 87
Crises of Imagination in Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son, Bleak House, Hard Times and The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices	p. 97
Forecast and Fantasy in Little Dorrit	p. 109
Creative Conversation in Hard Tines, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend	p. 127
Assertions of Style: Rhythm and Repetition in A Tale of Two Cities and Our Mutual Friend	p. 137
Shakespeare in Dickens: David Copperfield and Great Expectations	p. 145
Dickens in the Twentieth Century	p. 157
Sources	p. 175
Index	p. 179
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