The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens /
This Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political and economic to the scientific, commercial and religious. The contributions s...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Oxford handbooks.
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| Summary: | This Handbook is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political and economic to the scientific, commercial and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity. |
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| Physical Description: | xxxiii, 819 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0198743416 9780198743415 |