Charles Dickens : Hard Times/Bleak House /
"Dickens was an unprecedented phenomenon in his lifetime, drawing crowds of thousands to his professional readings in Britain and America, provoking demonstrations of public grief when his child-characters died, and developing increasing celebrity as his novels unfolded in weekly or monthly epi...
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London ; New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
2015
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| Series: | Analysing texts (Palgrave Macmillan (Firm))
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Table of Contents:
- General Editor's Preface
- A Note on Editions
- PART I: ANALYSING BLEAK HOUSE AND HARD TIMES
- Introduction
- 1. Facts and Fog: Opening Salvos
- 2. Characterisation (1): from Grotesques to Intimates
- 3. Characterisation (2): Women
- 4. Morality and Society
- 5. Rhetoric, Imagery and Symbol
- 6. Summative Discussion and Conclusions to Part One
- PART II: THE CONTEXT AND THE CRITICS
- 7. Charles Dickens's Life and Works
- 8. The Place of Hard Times and Bleak House in English Literature
- 9. A Sample of Critical Views
- Further Reading
- Index