Download or read book The Imagined World of Charles Dickens written by Mildred Newcomb and published by Ohio State University Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The imagination of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Imagination of Charles Dickens written by A. O. J. Cockshut and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Superhit Stories of Charles Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ` Superhit Stories of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Step into the captivating world of Charles Dickens with the Superhit Stories of Charles Dickens. This collection brings together a selection of Dickens's most beloved and enduring short stories, showcasing his unparalleled storytelling skills, vivid characterizations, and insightful social commentary. From the heartwarming and transformative 'A Christmas Carol' to the poignant and socially aware 'Oliver Twist,' these superhit stories transport readers to the bustling streets of Victorian England, immersing them in tales of redemption, hardship, and the resilience of the human spirit. Prepare to be enthralled by Dickens's unparalleled ability to capture the essence of the human experience. Key points: Richly Imagined Characters: The Superhit Stories of Charles Dickens introduces readers to a diverse array of richly imagined characters that have become iconic in literary history. From the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' to the orphaned Oliver Twist, Dickens's characters come to life on the pages, evoking a range of emotions and providing insightful commentary on social inequalities, human flaws, and the capacity for transformation. Social Commentary and Realism: Dickens's stories go beyond mere entertainment, serving as powerful social commentaries on the injustices and hardships faced by the lower classes in Victorian England. Through his vivid descriptions and sharp observations, Dickens exposes the social inequalities, poverty, and corruption of the era, highlighting the need for compassion, empathy, and reform. His stories offer a window into the realities of the time, inviting readers to reflect on the timeless issues of societal injustice and human struggle. Enduring Themes of Redemption and Hope: One of the enduring themes in Dickens's stories is the power of redemption and the triumph of the human spirit. From the transformation of Scrooge in 'A Christmas Carol' to the resilience of characters like Pip in 'Great Expectations,' Dickens explores the capacity for change, growth, and the potential for finding hope and goodness even in the bleakest of circumstances. These themes resonate with readers of all ages, reminding us of the inherent value of compassion, generosity, and second chances.
Download or read book Tales From Dickens written by Charles Dickens and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2023-10-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to the enchanting world of "Tales from Dickens" by Charles Dickens, a captivating collection of timeless stories that showcase the author's genius for character, plot, and social commentary. Prepare to be transported to the colorful streets of Victorian London as you encounter a cast of unforgettable characters and embark on a journey through the trials and triumphs of human experience. Join Charles Dickens as he invites you to explore the rich tapestry of life in 19th-century England through a series of masterfully crafted tales. From the heartwarming adventures of Oliver Twist to the haunting mysteries of Great Expectations, Dickens' stories offer a window into a world of poverty and wealth, love and loss, and the enduring resilience of the human spirit. As you delve into the pages of "Tales from Dickens," you'll encounter a diverse array of characters—from plucky orphans and conniving villains to noble heroes and wise old souls—each brought to life with Dickens' signature wit, humor, and keen eye for detail. Whether you're laughing along with the antics of Mr. Pickwick or shedding tears over the fate of Little Nell, Dickens' stories are sure to leave an indelible impression on your heart. With its blend of humor, pathos, and social commentary, "Tales from Dickens" offers readers a glimpse into the human condition that is as relevant today as it was in Dickens' time. Through his vivid descriptions and keen observations of society, Dickens shines a light on the injustices and inequalities that plagued Victorian England, while also celebrating the strength and resilience of the human spirit. Since its publication, "Tales from Dickens" has been hailed as a classic work of literature, beloved by readers of all ages for its timeless themes and unforgettable characters. Its enduring popularity and cultural significance attest to Dickens' status as one of the greatest storytellers of all time, whose stories continue to resonate with readers around the world. As you journey through the pages of "Tales from Dickens," you'll be captivated by Dickens' vivid imagination, his richly drawn characters, and his ability to illuminate the universal truths that bind us all together. His stories serve as a testament to the enduring power of literature to inspire, entertain, and provoke thought. In conclusion, "Tales from Dickens" is more than just a collection of stories—it's a journey through the human experience, brought to life through the incomparable genius of Charles Dickens. Whether you're a longtime fan of Dickens' work or discovering his stories for the first time, this book offers a captivating and unforgettable reading experience that will stay with you long after you've turned the final page. Don't miss your chance to experience the magic of "Tales from Dickens" by Charles Dickens. Join the countless readers who have been captivated by Dickens' timeless stories of love, loss, and redemption, and discover why his work continues to resonate with audiences around the world. Grab your copy now and prepare to be swept away on a literary journey through the streets of Victorian London!
Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens in Context written by Sally Ledger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-06-02 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.
Download or read book Charles Dickens s A Tale of Two Cities written by Ruth Glancy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-23 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since its publication in 1859, A Tale of Two Cities has remained the best-known fictional recreation of the French Revolution, and one of Charles Dickens’s most exciting novels. A Tale of Two Cities blends a moving love story with the familiar figures of the Revolution—Bastille prisoners, a starving Parisian mob, and an indolent aristocracy. Taking the form of a sourcebook, this guide to Dickens's dramatic novel offers: extensive introductory comment on the contexts and many interpretations of the text, from publication to the present annotated extracts from key contextual documents, reviews, critical works and the text itself cross-references between documents and sections of the guide, in order to suggest links between texts, contexts and criticism suggestions for further reading. This volume is essential reading for all those beginning detailed study of A Tale of Two Cities and seeking not only a guide to the novel, but a way through the wealth of contextual and critical material that surrounds Dickens' text.
Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.
Download or read book Reflections on of Dickens written by Ewa Kujawska-Lis and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-07-24 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays draws attention to the various and complex ways in which scholars and critics have reflected upon and reacted to Charles Dickens’s texts, including his novels, short fiction and journalism. Subsequent to the initial publication of Dickens’s works, writers, visual artists and filmmakers have re-imagined, transposed and transformed them from the mid-nineteenth century to the present. Although Reflections on / of Dickens recognizes the writer’s importance as first and foremost a major figure in literature, it nevertheless offers a uniquely vast array of approaches to his literary output, ranging from intertextual and generic strategies, through gender studies, translation studies and comparative literary studies, to issues connected with reception, popular culture, visual culture and performing arts. The diverse thematic preoccupations present in this highly interdisciplinary volume attest to Dickens’s central position in the British canon and his global appeal, while at the same time narrowing the gap between traditional textual analysis and more contextualised readings of his oeuvre, taking into account the socio-cultural and historical circumstances thanks to which his literary reputation continues to flourish.
Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Annette Federico and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-11 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A personal approach to Dickens's art that pays attention to what magnetizes Federico or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life, as she explores what Dickens' works are emotionally about. Dickens's first concern in all his fiction is with people's feelings and their imaginations. Everything else—the social criticism, the satire, the comedy—flows from that spring. How does a person begin to imagine, to enter vividly into the life he or she has been given, and into the lives of others? How does someone change, how do they love, give their trust, look forward to the future? These questions make their way into all of Dickens's novels, including the four discussed in this contribution to the My Reading series: Oliver Twist (1837-39), David Copperfield (1849-50), Little Dorrit (1855-57), and A Tale of Two Cities (1859). Consistent with the aims of the series, this book takes a personal approach to Dickens's art. Federico follows her own responses, paying attention to what magnetizes her or strikes her as newly relevant to our own world, and to her life. What is the story emotionally about? This becomes the important question as she reads through Dickens's works. It is the question that opens the door to her own memories, her own stories, as she grows from being an innocent reader of Dickens to a more critical, professionalized one—while still listening confidentially to what Dickens has to teach her about hope, love, and the limits of knowledge.
Download or read book The Imagination of Charles Dickens written by Anthony Oliver John Cockshut and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves written by Malcolm Andrews and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-29 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens's public readings have not had the attention they deserve; and yet Dickens put as much effort into perfecting his performances as he did with his novels. These performances were sensational events and won Dickens thousands of new admirers. This book tells that story and brings the events alive, with more detail than ever before.
Download or read book Charles Dickens s American Audience written by Robert McParland and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2011-12 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1837 to 1912, Charles Dickens was by far the most popular writer for American readers. Through several sources including statistics, literary biography, newspapers, memoirs, diaries, letters, and interviews, Robert McParland examines a historical time and an emerging national consciousness that defined the American identity before and after the Civil War. American voices present their views, tastes, emotional reactions and identifications, and deep attachment and love for Dickens's characters, stories, themes, and sensibilities as well as for the man himself. Bringing together contemporary reactions to Dickens and his works, this book paints a portrait of the American people and of American society and culture from 1837 to the turn of the twentieth century. It is in this view of nineteenth-century America--its people and their values, their reading habits and cultural views, the scenarios of their everyday lives even in the face of the drastic changes of the emerging nation--that Charles Dickens's American Audience makes its greatest impact.
Download or read book Dickens and the Imagined Child written by Peter Merchant and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The figure of the child and the imaginative and emotional capacities associated with children have always been sites of lively contestation for readers and critics of Dickens. In Dickens and the Imagined Child, leading scholars explore the function of the child and childhood within Dickens’s imagination and reflect on the cultural resonance of his engagement with this topic. Part I of the collection examines the Dickensian child as both characteristic type and particular example, proposing a typology of the Dickensian child that is followed by discussions of specific children in Oliver Twist, Dombey and Son, and Bleak House. Part II focuses on the relationship between childhood and memory, by examining the various ways in which the child’s-eye view was reabsorbed into Dickens’s mature sensibility. The essays in Part III focus upon reading and writing as particularly significant aspects of childhood experience; from Dickens’s childhood reading of tales of adventure, they move to discussion of the child readers in his novels and finally to a consideration of his own early writings alongside those that his children contributed to the Gad’s Hill Gazette. The collection therefore builds a picture of the remembered experiences of childhood being realised anew, both by Dickens and through his inspiring example, in the imaginative creations that they came to inform. While the protagonist of David Copperfield-that 'favourite child' among Dickens’s novels-comes to think of his childhood self as something which he 'left behind upon the road of life', for Dickens himself, leafing continually through his own back pages, there can be no putting away of childish things.
Download or read book Imagination All Compact written by Herbert Foltinek and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novels of Charles Dickens have fascinated generations of readers and still engage academic research. Yet while much has been done on the wide range of singular characters that Dickens created, the social ills that he lashed, and the thematic clusters pervading his work, some aspects of his writing have so far not been considered. The narrative structure of the novels is increasingly gaining attention, but what of their so very characteristic texture? How did Dickens achieve colourful fictions that comprise a variety of subjects, settings, and plot lines and yet remain coherent and convincing? The present study attempts to tackle this problem by offering a new approach to Dickens's work. The creative process from which the texts derived is here supposed to embrace two complementary compositional modes, a dynamic imaginative impulse on the one hand, and a restraining, ordering faculty on the other. The serial publication of the titles and their reception by the reading public allowed the author to fully explore the potential of any narrative situation, which would eventually resolve itself into a plausible line of development. As an in-depth analysis of several of his novels shows, remnants of the variants that had floated before him can still be discerned in the texts, testifying to the boundless imaginative power of Charles Dickens.
Download or read book Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies written by R. Patten and published by Springer. This book was released on 2005-11-30 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.
