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Title A companion to Charles Dickens [electronic resource] / edited by David Paroissien.

Imprint Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2008.

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Description xv, 515 p. : ill.
Series Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 51
Blackwell companions to literature and culture ; 51.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents A sketch of the life / Michael Allen -- Dickens's use of the autobiographical fragment / Nicola Bradbury -- "Faithfully yours, Charles Dickens" : the epistolary art of the inimitable / David Paroissien -- Three major biographies / Catherine Peters -- The 18th-century legacy / D. Monika Fludernik -- Dickens and the gothic / Robert Mighall -- Illustrations / Malcolm Andrews -- The language of Dickens / Patricia Ingham -- The novels and popular culture / Juliet John -- Dickens as a reformer / Hugh Cunningham -- Dickens's evolution as a journalist / John Drew -- Dickens and gender / Natalie McKnight -- Dickens and technology / Trey Philpotts -- Dickens and America (1842) / Nancy Aycock Metz -- Dickens, the Crimean War, the Indian Mutiny, and the Jamaican Rebellion / Leslie. G. Mitchell -- Dickens and the uses of history / John Gardiner -- Dickens as a Christian / Valentine Cunningham -- Dickens and the law / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- The Pickwick papers / David Parker -- Oliver Twist / Brian Cheadle -- Nicholas Nickleby / Stanley Friedman -- The old curiosity shop / Gillian Ballinger -- Barnaby Rudge / John Mee -- Martin Chuzzlewit / Goldie Morgentaler -- Dombey and Son / Brigid Lowe -- David Copperfield / Gareth Cordery -- Bleak house / Robert Tracy -- Hard times / Anne Humphreys -- Little Dorrit / Philip Davis -- A tale of two cities / Paul Davis -- Great expectations / Andrew L. Sanders -- Our mutual friend / Leon Litvack -- The mystery of Edwin Drood / Simon J. James -- Dickens and the literary culture of the period / Michael Hollington -- Dickens and criticism / Lyn Pikett -- Casting long shadows / John O. Jordan.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Paroissien, David.
ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9781405130974 (alk. paper)

 
    
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