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050 00 $aPR4588$b.M44 2010
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100 1 $aMee, Jon.
245 14 $aThe Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens /$cJon Mee.
260 $aCambridge ;$aNew York :$bCambridge University Press,$c2010.
300 $axvi, 115 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
490 0 $aCambridge introductions to literature
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"Charles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London"--$cProvided by publisher.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 8 $aMachine generated contents note: Preface; Chronology; 1. Dickens the entertainer: 'people must be amuthed'; 2. Dickens and language: 'what I meantersay'; 3. Dickens and the city: 'animate London ... inanimate London'; 4. Dickens, gender, and domesticity: 'be it ever ... so ghastly ... there's no place like it'; 5. Adapting Dickens: 'he do the police in different voices'; Further reading.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xCriticism and interpretation.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xLiterary style.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xKnowledge$xLondon (England)
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xPolitical and social views.
600 10 $aDickens, Charles,$d1812-1870$xAdaptations.
856 42 $3Cover image$uhttp://assets.cambridge.org/97805216/76342/cover/9780521676342.jpg
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021908-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021908-d.html
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1010/2010021908-t.html