Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death

ISBN-13: 9780367663063 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 174 str.

Jeremy Tambling

Opis

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts.

Spis treści

Preface

Introduction: Early Dickens

Chapter 1: From Papers to Novel

Chapter 2: Mr Squeers

Chapter 3: Benevolence and Humour

Chapter 4: Pantomime and Melodrama

Chapter 5: Of ‘Conglomeration’ and Hypocrisy

Chapter 6: London and the Dance of Death

Conclusion: London’s Squares

Bibliography

O autorze

Jeremy Tambling was formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University and before that, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

He is author of several books, three of them on Dickens:　Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold(Macmillan 1995),　Going Astray: Dickens and London　(Longman, 2008),　and Dickens’ Novels as Poetry: Allegory and the Literature of the City　(Routledge 2014). He edited　David Copperfield　for Penguin (2004) and has written numerous articles on early modern and nineteenth century literature, and critical and cultural theory. His most recent book was　Histories of the Devil: Marlowe to Mann, and the Manichees　(Macmillan, 2017).