Charles Dickens

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism
Cover of the book Charles Dickens by Lyn Pykett, Macmillan Education UK
View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart
Author: Lyn Pykett ISBN: 9781403919199
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK Publication: March 14, 2017
Imprint: Red Globe Press Language: English
Author: Lyn Pykett
ISBN: 9781403919199
Publisher: Macmillan Education UK
Publication: March 14, 2017
Imprint: Red Globe Press
Language: English

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens 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 century.

Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in one of the most popular, and enduring, British novelists of all time.

View on Amazon View on AbeBooks View on Kobo View on B.Depository View on eBay View on Walmart

To many of his contemporaries, Charles Dickens 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 century.

Each chapter of this text analyses the work of a particular decade in Dickens's career, providing a lively contextual study which places his writings in relation to the worlds that made him, and the literary worlds which he made. It is essential reading for all those with an interest in one of the most popular, and enduring, British novelists of all time.

More books from Macmillan Education UK

Cover of the book The Kingdom of Ireland, 1641-1760 by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Critical Issues in Social Work Law by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Shakespeare - Hamlet by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Theatre and Law by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Consumer Behaviour by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Doing Psychology Critically by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Hanif Kureishi by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Interpreting Shakespeare on Screen by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Economics for Business by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Critical Thinking Skills by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Psychoanalysis Outside the Clinic by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Business Degree Success by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Learning and Teaching in Social Work Practice by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Writing for Engineers by Lyn Pykett
Cover of the book Families, Intimacy and Globalization by Lyn Pykett
We use our own "cookies" and third party cookies to improve services and to see statistical information. By using this website, you agree to our Privacy Policy