Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit
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In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In
this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and
transforms our ways of understanding Dickens's work and his place in the history of the novel.
this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and
transforms our ways of understanding Dickens's work and his place in the history of the novel.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0198185065
ISBN13:9780198185062
Release Date:February 2000
Publisher:Oxford University Press, USA
Length:240 Pages
Weight:0.90 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.6"
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