| Description |
261 pages ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 247-255. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
The grotesque tradition, ancient and modern -- The romance of real life: Sketches by Boz and Pickwick papers -- 'They always die when I'm at meals': Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby -- The old curiosity shop and the new curiosity shop -- The grotesque in history: Barnaby Rudge and A tale of two cities -- The grotesque in America: American notes and Martin Chuzzlewit -- The new picturesque: Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit -- Narrative perspective and the grotesque: Master Humphrey's closk, the Christmas books and The uncommercial traveller -- The child's perception of the grotesque: Dombey and son and David Copperfield -- Ironic infernos: Bleak House, Hard Times and Ruskin's conception of the grotesque -- The grotesque and tragicomedy: Great expectations -- Opium and the grotesque: Our mutual friend and Edwin Drood. |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Grotesque in literature.
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| Indexed Term |
Fiction in English Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870. Special themes: Grotesque - Critical studies |
| ISBN |
0389204579 |
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0709912617 |
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