| The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens Contributor(s): Patten, Robert L. (Editor), Jordan, John O. (Editor), Waters, Catherine (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0198743416 ISBN-13: 9780198743415 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: December 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Collections - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| LCCN: 2018939911 |
| Physical Information: 2.3" H x 6.8" W x 9.8" (3.70 lbs) 854 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity. |