书目名称 | Charles Dickens | 编辑 | Lyn Pykett | 视频video | | 概述 | Examines the whole range of the author‘s work, including his journalism. Explores Dickens‘s writing in relation to the cultural contexts of the Victorian era, and the critical debates of the nineteent | 丛书名称 | Critical Issues | 图书封面 |  | 描述 | To many of his contemporaries, CharlesDickens was the greatest writer of his age; a one-man fiction industry who produced fourteen massive novels, and numerous sketches, essays and stories, many of which appeared in the two magazines which he founded and edited.Today the work of one of the first and most successful mass-circulation authors continues to enthrall readers around the world..This wide-ranging book examines the writings of Dickens, not only in his time but also in ours.it looks at the author as a Victorian ‘man of letters‘, and explores his cultural and critical impact both on the definition of the novel in the nineteenth century and the subsequent development of the form in the twentieth.Lyn Pykett focuses on Dickens as journalist, literary entrepreneur, the conductor of magazines, the shaper of the serial novel, the manipulator of the multiple plot, and the creator of eccentric characters.She also assesses the modernity of the writer‘s alienated protagonists and their social environments, as well as reassessing his representations of the vivid, bleak and at times menacing spectacle of the metropolis, from the late modern/postmodern perspective of the twenty first centu | 出版日期 | Textbook 2002Latest edition | 关键词 | Charles Dickens; novel; Victorian era | 版次 | 1 | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4039-1919-9 | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2002 |
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