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Author Hartley, Jenny, author.

Title Charles Dickens : a very short introduction / Jenny Hartley.

Publication Info. Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
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 Manchester, Main Library - New Materials  823.8 DICKENS    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description xviii, 130 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Series Very short introductions ; 594
Very short introductions ; 594.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 117-121) and index.
Note Originally published as: Charles Dickens : an introduction. 2016.
Contents 1. More -- 2. Public and private -- 3. Character and plot -- 4. City Laureate -- 5. Radical Dickens -- 6. Dickensian.
Summary This book covers the life and work of Charles Dickens, with examples taken from all his major works and writing. It considers the key themes in Dickens's novels, and the way in which he used his writing to critique the great dehumanising structures, ideologies, and bureaucracies of nineteenth-century Britain. This book examines the potent and multiple after-lives of Dickens's novels, and their ongoing impact today. It explores Dickens's own career and life, and the influence this had on his writing. It also discusses Dickens's treatment by critics through the ages.
Subject Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, English -- 19th century -- Biography.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Dickens, Charles, (1812-1870) -- Criticism and interpretation.
Novelists, English -- Biography -- 19th century.
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. (OCoLC)fst00028294
Novelists, English. (OCoLC)fst01039718
Chronological Term 1800-1899
Genre/Form collective biographies. (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080111
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Biographies.
ISBN 9780198714996 (paperback)
0198714998 (paperback)
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