The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens

"Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Di...

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Accesso online:Electronic book from Proquest Ebook Central Academic Complete
Autore principale: Mee, Jon.
Natura: Elettronico eBook
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione:Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Serie:Cambridge introductions to literature
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  • Machine generated contents note: Preface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.