In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and transforms our ways...
In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twis...
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.
This volume provides an overview of the current state of the discipline and looks to the future of research. It contains fourteen thematic chapters co...
