| Charles Dickens in Context Contributor(s): Ledger, Sally (Editor), Furneaux, Holly (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0521887003 ISBN-13: 9780521887007 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $128.25 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Dewey: 823.8 |
| LCCN: 2011006726 |
| Series: Literature in Context |
| Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.2" W x 9.1" (1.59 lbs) 428 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present. |
Contributor Bio(s): Ledger, Sally: - Sally Ledger was the Hildred Carlile Chair in English at Royal Holloway, University of London.Furneaux, Holly: - Holly Furneaux is Lecturer in Victorian Literature at the University of Leicester. |