| Description |
viii, 367 pages ; 25 cm. |
| Series |
Modern critical views |
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Modern critical views.
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| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 343-351. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
A collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works. |
| Contents |
The dark world of Oliver Twist / J. Hillis Miller -- Dickens and the comedy of humors / Northrop Frye -- The demons of history in Dickens's Tale / Robert Alter -- The creation of consciousness and Dickens's vision of the city / Raymond Williams -- Language into structure : Pickwick revisited / Steven Marcus -- A Christmas carol : "giving nursery tales a higher form" / Harry Stone -- Plot and the point of reversal / Robert L. Caserio -- Language engenders : David Copperfield and Great expectations / Dianne F. Sadoff -- Discipline in different voices : bureaucracy, police, family, and Bleak house / D.A. Miller -- Monsters of metonymy : Hard times and knowing the working class / Stephen J. Spector. |
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Homophobia, misogyny, and capital : the example of Our mutual friend / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick -- Dickens's Great expectations : the motive for moral masochism / Shuli Barzilai -- The Dickensian "no thoroughfare" / Ned Lukacher -- Getting and having : some versions of possession in Little Dorrit / Jeff Nunokawa. |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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English literature -- History and criticism.
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| Added Author |
Bloom, Harold.
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| ISBN |
0877546908 alkaline paper $27.50 |
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9780877546900 alkaline paper |
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