Liminal Dickens : rites of passage in his work /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Kennedy, Valerie (Editor), Kitsē-Mytakou, Katerina (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.
Subjects:	Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870 > Criticism and interpretation > Congresses. Dickens, Charles, > 1812-1870. Liminality in literature > Congresses. Life change events in literature > Congresses. Life change events in literature. Liminality in literature. Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

Posthumous and prenatal Dickens / Dominic Rainsford
Little Dorrit : a grammatology of the books of birth, death, and marriage / Trevor Hope
Death in other words : Dickens's novels and the euphemism boom / Margaret J.-M. Sönmez
Dickens, "first things" and the rites of growing up / Catherine Waters
"Ji" : minor characters at Dickens's weddings / Mike Hollington
The workhouse world of Oliver Twist : mother, orphan, foundling / Jeremy Tambling
Dodging Nell : Dickens and resilience / Zelma Catalan
"A little life among the multitude of lesser deaths" : productive life cycles in Little Dorrit / Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou
Evolutionary murder : death by water and the struggle for existence in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend / Victor Sag
The rhetoric of Dickens's deathbeds : challenging realist conventions / David Parker
Life and/or death : lineage versus environment in Oliver Twist / Valerie Kennedy
A story of an absence : the writerly mystery of Edwin Drood / Maria Vara.