Dickens and the Business of Death

ISBN-13: 9781107491557 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 242 str.

Claire Wood

Opis

The first ever full-length study exploring how Dickens's fiction engaged with, responded to, and even exploited Victorian attitudes to death.

Recenzje

'… neatly-written, well-researched and persuasive …' Andrew Mangham, Dickens Quarterly

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. Profitable undertakings and deathly business; 2. Revaluing The Old Curiosity Shop; 3. Death and property in Bleak House; 4. Parts and parting in Our Mutual Friend; Conclusion. Stealing Dickens; Bibliography.