Dickens's Villains: Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture

ISBN-13: 9780199261376 / Angielski / Miękka / 2003 / 272 str.

Juliet John

Opis

This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the "deviant" and "theatrical" aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book sets up a dialogue between these two main strands and suggests a new way understanding the cultural and political implications of his melodramatic aesthetics.

Recenzje

a major, original... reconsideration of undervalued dimensions of Dickens's ideology and aesthetics... Dickenss Villains is one of the freshest interpretations of Dickens in a generation