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A Companion to Charles Dickens

ISBN: 978-0-470-65794-2
Paperback
534 pages
April 2011, Wiley-Blackwell
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A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.
  • Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts
  • Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist
  • Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels
  • Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform
  • Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
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