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Dickens's London : Perception, Subjectivity and Phenomenal Urban Multiplicity
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ISBN: 9780748656035 0748656030 9780748640409 0748640401 1474429793 9786613716170 1280874864 9780748656059 0748656057 9780748656042 0748656049 9781474429795 9781280874864 6613716170 Year: 2012 Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

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This exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer. Taking Walter Benjamin's Arcades Project as an inspiration, Dickens's London offers an exciting and original project that opens a dialogue between phenomenology, philosophy and the Dickensian representation of the city in all its forms. Julian Wolfreys suggests that in their representations of London - its streets, buildings, public institutions, domestic residences, rooms and phenomena that constitute such space - Dickens's novels and journalism can be seen as forerunners of urban and material phenomenology. While also addressing those aspects of the urban that are developed from Dickens's interpretations of other literary forms, styles and genres, Dickens's London presents in twenty-six episodes (from Banking and Breakfast via the Insolvent Court, Melancholy and Poverty, to Todgers and Time, Voice and Waking) a radical reorientation to London in the nineteenth century, the development of Dickens as a writer, and the ways in which readers today receive and perceive both.

The rain of years : Great expectations and the world of Dickens
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ISBN: 1282080504 9786612080500 1580466702 158046100X Year: 2001 Publisher: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press,

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This work argues that Great Expectations best exemplifies Charles Dickens's worldview, and brings together the various themes he addresses in all his works. This is the last book by the noted English scholar Bernard Schilling. A remarkably compact survey of all the novels by Charles Dickens, it shows the unity of the whole body of work by reviewing basic scenes and images in the novels. It is the result of many years of reading and teaching Dickens, and demonstrates a thorough familiarity with Victorian literature in general. The book argues that Great Expectations is the novel which brings together all the main themes of Dickens's vision. Schilling's affectionate treatment of the characters found with Dickens's world will appeal to anyone interested in English literature, and is a fitting final work by a master of prose himself. Bernard Schilling was Trevor Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Rochester. He was author of several books, including The Comic Spirit, The Comic World of Dickens, andTwentieth Century Views: Dryden.


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Dickens’s Working Notes for 'Dombey and Son'
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ISBN: 1783742259 1783742232 1783742240 1783742267 9781783742264 9781783742271 9781783742257 1783742275 9781783742240 9781783742233 Year: 2017 Publisher: Open Book Publishers

Knowing Dickens
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ISBN: 9780801446146 0801446147 1322503168 0801476232 0801460107 0801467012 9780801460104 9780801467011 9780801476235 Year: 2010 Publisher: Ithaca, NY

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In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thought world of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection-notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself-the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions-and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Charles Dickens
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ISBN: 1134781458 1280115270 0203194756 0203286235 113478144X 0415134595 0415568757 9780203286234 0746308108 Year: 2003 Publisher: London Routledge

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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read the works for themselves.


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My Father as I Recall Him
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ISBN: 1107450284 1108074553 Year: 1897 Publisher: Place of publication not identified : Cambridge : publisher not identified, Cambridge University Press

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The official biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) was published in 1872-4 by his close friend and literary executor John Forster, and has been reissued in this series. Of the many other memoirs and reminiscences of the great novelist, this book by his favourite daughter Mary (1838-96), known as Mamie, is perhaps the least familiar. Published in 1896, shortly after her death, it gives a loving picture, based on her own memories, of the person whom she held 'in my heart of hearts as a man apart from all other men, as one apart from all other beings'. Mamie, who had taken Dickens's side during the separation from his wife, and acted effectively as his housekeeper at Gad's Hill, had compiled an edition of her father's letters with her aunt Georgina Hogarth, and this second act of piety gives an idyllic - perhaps too idyllic - account of daily life with Dickens.


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Dickens's style
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ISBN: 9781107028432 9781139236201 9781107527430 9781107250260 1107250269 1139236202 1107028434 1139891227 9781139891226 1107241561 9781107241565 1107527430 1107251095 9781107251090 1107248604 9781107248601 1107247772 9781107247772 1107249430 9781107249431 1299749097 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge New York

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Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.

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