Charles Dickens

Goodheart, Eugene. (Editor).

Record details

ISBN: 1587656914 (alk. paper)
ISBN: 9781587656910 (alk. paper)
Physical Description: ix, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
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Publisher: Pasadena, Calif. : Salem Press, c2011.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

On Charles Dickens / Eugene Goodheart -- Biography of Charles Dickens / Patricia Marks -- The Paris Review perspective / Elizabeth Gumport for The Paris Review -- Charles Dickens in his times/ Shanyn Fiske -- Charles Dickens's critical reputation / Laurence W. Mazzeno -- Order in disorder: surrealism and Oliver Twist / Nancy M. West -- Another version of pastoral: Oliver Twist / Joseph M. Duffy, Jr. -- Mourning becomes David: loss and the Victorian restoration of young Copperfield / Alan P. Barr -- Eccentricity as Englishness in David Copperfield / Julie F. Saville -- Expectations well lost: dickens' fable for his time / G. Robert Stange -- The sense of self / Monroe Engel -- Structure and idea in Bleak house / Robert A. Donovan -- "True legitimacy": the myth of the foundling in Bleak house / Michele S. Ware -- Hard times and the structure of industrialism: the novel as factory / Patricia E. Johnson -- Little Dorrit / Lionel Trilling -- Charles Dickens, James Joyce, and the origins of modernism / Matthew J. Bolton.