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Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dickens


Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dickens


Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions

von: Murray Brian Murray

25,86 €

Verlag: Continuum
Format: PDF
Veröffentl.: 01.07.2009
ISBN/EAN: 9781441154255
Sprache: englisch
Anzahl Seiten: 184

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The Bedside Dickens provides a lively look at this great novelist's life and career. It sheds light on his role as a polemicist and journalist and explores the way his work was long informed by his Christian faith. It also reveals his most persistent literary themes and provides a vivid sense of how, among his contemporaries, Dickens' vast success-and his &quote;radical&quote; politics-provoked both admiration and scorn. Dickens, this study reminds us, saw life as a battle, but as both a novelist and journalist he sought to provide a more hopeful worldview. He repeatedly satirized vice and folly, even as he urged his readers and the leaders of his day to be less selfish and narrow and to &quote;do good always.&quote; Chapters and topics include: Dickens and Animals; Christmas Stories; The Magnetizer; Dickens vs. Thackeray; A Christian Writer; Dickens Down Under; What Dickens Read; Dickens and Spontaneous Combustion; Dickens and Journalism; Dickens on the Couch.

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