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Charles Dickens And The Properties Of Fiction
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Author : Ushashi Dasgupta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-20
Charles Dickens And The Properties Of Fiction written by Ushashi Dasgupta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
Charles Dicken S Persons Of Interest
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: Miniature Masterpieces
Release Date : 2013-10-15
Charles Dicken S Persons Of Interest written by Charles Dickens and has been published by Miniature Masterpieces this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-15 with categories.
The short story is often viewed as an inferior relation to the Novel. But it is an art in itself. To take a story and distil its essence into fewer pages while keeping character and plot rounded and driven is not an easy task. Many try and many fail. In this series we look at short stories from many of our most accomplished writers. Miniature masterpieces with a lot to say. In this volume we examine some of the stories Charles Dickens wrote about specific people. Sometimes with just a few details Dickens conjures up memorable characters that set about their journey. Dickens is a name that dominates the landscape of English novelists. His works are masterpieces and he is held everywhere in the highest regard. In his fairly short life of 58 years he accomplished an extraordinary number of classic novels, especially in light of his humble and poor beginnings. Here in this collection of stories his hand and mind are everywhere within their short length proving once again that Dickens could master almost any form of writing.
Charles Dickens And The Properties Of Fiction
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Author : Ushashi Dasgupta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-05-20
Charles Dickens And The Properties Of Fiction written by Ushashi Dasgupta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-20 with Literary Criticism categories.
When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World explores the significance of tenancy in his fiction. In nineteenth century Britain the vast majority of people rented, rather than owned, their homes. Instead of keeping to themselves, they shared space - renting, lodging, taking lodgers in, or simply living side-by-side in a crowded modern city. Charles Dickens explored both the chaos and the unexpected harmony to be found in rented spaces, the loneliness and sociability, the interactions between cohabitants, the complex gender dynamics at play, and the relationship between space and money. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction demonstrates that a cosy, secluded home life was beyond the reach of most Victorian Londoners, and considers Dickens's nuanced conception of domesticity. Tenancy maintained an enduring hold upon his imagination, giving him new stories to tell and offering him a set of models to think about authorship. He celebrated the fact that unassuming houses brim with narrative potential: comedies, romances, and detective plots take place behind their doors. Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World wedges these doors open.
Charles Dickens
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Author : James E. Marlow
language : en
Publisher: Susquehanna University Press
Release Date : 1994
Charles Dickens written by James E. Marlow and has been published by Susquehanna University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Literary Criticism categories.
"Charles Dickens: The Uses of Time clarifies the antinomies that appear in Dickens's attitudes toward the past, present, and future. To do this, author James E. Marlow follows Dickens's personal and literary development through all his novels and many of his letters and journalistic pieces. For example, toward the past Dickens reveals diametrically opposing attitudes. A part of his own childhood was so painful a memory to him that he could not bring himself to tell his wife about it after twenty years of marriage. In his novels he developed a number of ways of dealing with the awful pasts, both personal and national. From denial to anger to acceptance, Dickens tried one method after another. As each failed to relieve his anguish, and even failed to rescue human feelings, he formulated another. This is what Marlow calls Dickens's "dialectic of the past."" "Yet Dickens was also nostalgic about much of the past. He emphasized its softening quality even while trying to disarm its dehumanizing quality. With his characters Dickens discovered the necessity of an engagement with the past that entails accepting the pain as well as the joy. This is its use. The past is abused when the pain or joy is disentangled from the whole and held up as meaning in itself. This act orphans the feelings, petrifying the soul." "What is true of the past is true of the present and future as well. Just as one chapter of the book is devoted to the abuse of the past and another to its uses, a further chapter shows the way Dickens worked through the terrors of the present, dominated by an ideology that the author calls "English cannibalism." Another chapter shows the threat of moral sclerosis through dealing with the future as merely "great expectations." These chapters are paired with chapters that show the joys of the present and future. With each time period there is a dialectical process: Dickens had to work through a stance, discover its deficiencies, and then move on to another stance that promised to provide more human gain, both social and personal, from the past, present, and future. Ultimately, the very existence of three dimensions of time is the solace of man, because while the past, for example, can be used for relief of the present, the present can modify and soften the past. All is fluid, and nothing is ever finished in the process between mind and human events." "In the last chapter Marlow established the kind of material world that Dickens's dialectic of time presupposed. It is a world with moral foundations, and Dickens, like many other Victorians, discovered a plausible, scientific explanation for such a world in Charles Babbage's Ninth Bridgewater Treatise, a book that seeks to harmonize scientific knowledge with moral imperatives. This satisfies Dickens's own project perfectly, for Dickens wished to demonstrate the possibilities of engagements with each dimension of time, within the requirements of social life, that do not annihilate the moral properties necessary for the soul to harmonize with God's universe itself."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
Charles Dickens And The Form Of The Novel
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Author : Graham Daldry
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-08-05
Charles Dickens And The Form Of The Novel written by Graham Daldry and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-05 with Drama categories.
First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our understanding of the novels, to lead us to see them as failures of artistic unity. In this book the author seeks to address this question of unity and find a terminology that can treat language, plot and representation of reality as a coherent imaginative effort. This thesis is worked out in detail with reference to several of the novels, and represents a challenging re-evaluation Dickens’ achievement as a novelist. This book will be if interest to student of literature.
Dickens
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Author : Rossana Bonadei
language : en
Publisher: Unicopli
Release Date : 2000
Dickens written by Rossana Bonadei and has been published by Unicopli this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Literary Criticism categories.
David Copperfield Annotated
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-02-19
David Copperfield Annotated written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-19 with categories.
This is an annotated version of the book1. contains an updated biography of the author at the end of the book for a better understanding of the text.2. This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errorsWhether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether thatstation will be held by anybody else, these pages must show. To begin mylife with the beginning of my life, I record that I was born (as I havebeen informed and believe) on a Friday, at twelve o'clock at night.It was remarked that the clock began to strike, and I began to cry,simultaneously.In consideration of the day and hour of my birth, it was declared bythe nurse, and by some sage women in the neighbourhood who had taken alively interest in me several months before there was any possibilityof our becoming personally acquainted, first, that I was destined to beunlucky in life; and secondly, that I was privileged to see ghosts andspirits; both these gifts inevitably attaching, as they believed, toall unlucky infants of either gender, born towards the small hours on aFriday night.I need say nothing here, on the first head, because nothing can showbetter than my history whether that prediction was verified or falsifiedby the result. On the second branch of the question, I will only remark,that unless I ran through that part of my inheritance while I was stilla baby, I have not come into it yet. But I do not at all complain ofhaving been kept out of this property; and if anybody else should be inthe present enjoyment of it, he is heartily welcome to keep it.I was born with a caul, which was advertised for sale, in thenewspapers, at the low price of fifteen guineas. Whether sea-goingpeople were short of money about that time, or were short of faith andpreferred cork jackets, I don't know; all I know is, that there was butone solitary bidding, and that was from an attorney connected with thebill-broking business, who offered two pounds in cash, and the balancein sherry, but declined to be guaranteed from drowning on any higherbargain. Consequently the advertisement was withdrawn at a deadloss--for as to sherry, my poor dear mother's own sherry was in themarket then--and ten years afterwards, the caul was put up in a raffledown in our part of the country, to fifty members at half-a-crown ahead, the winner to spend five shillings. I was present myself, and Iremember to have felt quite uncomfortable and confused, at a part ofmyself being disposed of in that way. The caul was won, I recollect, byan old lady with a hand-basket, who, very reluctantly, produced from itthe stipulated five shillings, all in halfpence, and twopence halfpennyshort--as it took an immense time and a great waste of arithmetic, toendeavour without any effect to prove to her. It is a fact which willbe long remembered as remarkable down there, that she was never drowned,but died triumphantly in bed, at ninety-two. I have understood that itwas, to the last, her proudest boast, that she never had been on thewater in her life, except upon a bridge; and that over her tea (to whichshe was extremely partial) she, to the last, expressed her indignationat the impiety of mariners and others, who had the presumption to go'meandering' about the world. It was in vain to represent to herthat some conveniences, tea perhaps included, resulted from thisobjectionable practice. She always returned, with greater emphasis andwith an instinctive knowledge of the strength of her objection, 'Let ushave no meandering.'Not to meander myself, at present, I will go back to my birth.I was born at Blunderstone, in Suffolk, or 'there by', as they say inScotland. I was a posthumous child. My father's eyes had closed uponthe light of this world six months, when mine opened on it. There issomething strange to me, even now, in the reflection that he never sawme; and something stranger
The Novels Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Frederic George Kitton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1897
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Charles Dickens The Complete Novels The Greatest Novelists Of All Time Book 1
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2023-11-24
Charles Dickens The Complete Novels The Greatest Novelists Of All Time Book 1 written by Charles Dickens and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-11-24 with Fiction categories.
E-artnow presents to you the complete novels by one of the greatest novelist of English literature. This collection includes: Oliver Twist The Pickwick Papers Nicholas Nickleby The Old Curiosity Shop Barnaby Rudge Martin Chuzzlewit Dombey and Son David Copperfield Bleak House Hard Times Little Dorrit A Tale of Two Cities Great Expectations Our Mutual Friend The Mystery of Edwin Drood A Christmas Carol The Chimes The Cricket on the Hearth The Battle of Life The Haunted Man
The Works Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Charles Dickens
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1898
The Works Of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1898 with categories.