The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens

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Label

The Oxford handbook of Charles Dickens

Statement of responsibility

edited by Robert L. Patten, John O. Jordan and Catherine Waters

Title variation

Charles Dickens

Contributor

• Waters, Catherine
• Patten, Robert L.
• Jordan, John O.

Editor

• Jordan, John O.
• Patten, Robert L.
• Waters, Catherine

Subject

• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
• Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

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

Member of

• Oxford handbooks

Cataloging source

YDX

Dewey number

823/.8

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

PR4588

LC item number

.O94 2018

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Oxford handbooks