{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-charles-dickens-paperback-9780521669641","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Paperback) 9780521669641","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJohn O. Jordan (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521669641, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback, published 18 June 2001\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e258 pages, 15 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.5 x 1.7 cm, 0.42 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'Strikes an excellent balance between scholarship and accessibility, and between the biographical and the critical.' The Book and Magazine Collector\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eList of illustrations\u003cbr\u003e Notes on contributors\u003cbr\u003e Chronology\u003cbr\u003e List of abbreviations and texts\u003cbr\u003e Preface John O. Jordan\u003cbr\u003e 1. The life and times of Charles Dickens Grahame Smith\u003cbr\u003e 2. From Sketches to Nickleby Robert L. Patten\u003cbr\u003e 3. The middle novels: Chuzzlewit, Dombey, and Copperfield Kate Flint\u003cbr\u003e 4. Moments of decision in Bleak House J. Hillis Miller\u003cbr\u003e 5. Novels of the 1850s: Hard Times, Little Dorrit, and A Tale of Two Cities  Hilary Schor\u003cbr\u003e 6. The late novels: Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend Brian Cheadle\u003cbr\u003e 7. Fictions of childhood Robert Newsom\u003cbr\u003e 8. Fictions of the city Murray Baumgarten\u003cbr\u003e 9. Gender, family, and domestic ideology Catherine Waters\u003cbr\u003e 10. Dickens and language Garrett Stewart\u003cbr\u003e 11. Dickens and the form of the novel Nicola Bradbury\u003cbr\u003e 12. Dickens and illustrations Richard Stein\u003cbr\u003e 13. Dickens and theatre John Glavin\u003cbr\u003e 14. Dickens and film Joss Marsh\u003cbr\u003e Selected bibliography\u003cbr\u003e Index.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: fiction, novelists \u0026amp; prose writers\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20fiction,%20novelists%20\u0026amp;%20prose%20writers%20%5BDSK%5D%22\"\u003eDSK\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46000824975640,"sku":"9780521669641","price":21.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521669641i_1ca2ae37-e5dd-4a7d-9bb8-768372f2357d.jpg?v=1691379717","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-charles-dickens-paperback-9780521669641","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}