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1 online resource (ix, 290 pages).

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Series

Critical insights

Critical insights.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Works by Charles Dickens": pages 271-272.

Contents

On Charles Dickens / Eugene Goodheart -- Biography of Charles Dickens / Ppatricia Marks -- The Paris Review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport for The Paris Review -- Charles Dickens in his times/ Shanyn Fiske -- Charles Dickens's critical reputation / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Order in disorder: surrealism and Oliver Twist / Nancy M. West -- Another version of pastoral: Oliver Twist / Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. -- Mourning becomes David: loss and the Victorian restoration of young Copperfield / Alan P. Barr -- Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield / Julie F. Saville -- Expectations well lost: dickens' fable for his time / G. Robert Stange -- The sense of self / Monroe Engel -- Structure and idea in Bleak house / Robert A. Donovan -- "True legitimacy": the myth of the foundling in Bleak house / Michele S. Ware -- Hard times and the structure of industrialism: the novel as factory / Patricia E. Johnson -- Little Dorrit / Lionel Trilling -- Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and the origins of modernism / Matthew J. Bolton.

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Summary

This volume brings together a variety of new, classic, and contemporary essays on Dickens's most widely read works.

Subject

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.

LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added Author

Goodheart, Eugene.

Other Form:

Print version: Charles Dickens. Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, ©2011 9781587656910 (DLC) 2010030136 (OCoLC)650827374

ISBN

9781587656927 (electronic bk.)

1587656922 (electronic bk.)