Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies

ISBN-13: 9781403912862 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 348 str.

John Bowen; Professor Robert L. Patten

Opis

This volume provides an overview of the current state of the discipline and looks to the future of research. It contains fourteen thematic chapters complemented by a chronology of key events and publications, and a select guide to further reading.

Recenzje

'Bob Patten and John Bowen's collection is a state-of-the art guide to Dickens studies. The editors have assembled a distinguished team of contributors, who clearly and succinctly set forth illuminating perspectives on crucial issues of modern scholarship. Wide-ranging, detailed, and remarkably coherent, it is the best single volume of essays since George Ford and Lauriat Lane's classic The Dickens Critics first appeared nearly half a century ago, and a must for every serious student of Dickens.' - Paul Schlicke, President of the International Dickens Fellowship and Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK

'[A] volume of signal importance...a model of its kind' - Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian

Spis treści

List of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Introduction; J.Bowen& R.L.Patten Publishing in Parts; R.L.Patten Dickens and the Writing of a Life; R.Bodenheimer Performing Character; M.Andrews Dickens and Plot; H.M.Schor Visualizing Dickens; J.Sutherland From Blood to Law: the Embarrassments of Family in Dickens; H.Michie Reforming Culture; C.Waters Dickens's Reading Public; D.Vincent Politicized Dickens: The Journalism of the 1850s; J.Childers Psychoanalyzing Dickens; C.Dever Historicising Dickens; C.Robson Dickens and the Force of Writing; J.Bowen Timeline; I.Wilkinson Bibliography Index

O autorze

MALCOLM ANDREWS University of Kent, UK ROSEMARIE BODENHEIMER Boston College, USA JOSEPH CHILDERS University of California, Riverside, USA CAROLYN DEVER Vanderbilt University, USA HELENA MICHIE Rice University, USA CATHERINE ROBSON University of California, Davis, USA HILARY M. SCHOR University of Southern California, USA JOHN SUTHERLAND University College London, UK DAVID VINCENT Open University, UK and visiting fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, UK CATHERINE WATERS University of New England, Australia IAN WILKINSON Keele University, UK