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Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dickens
Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions
25,86 € |
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Verlag: | Continuum |
Format: | |
Veröffentl.: | 01.07.2009 |
ISBN/EAN: | 9781441154255 |
Sprache: | englisch |
Anzahl Seiten: | 184 |
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Beschreibungen
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 "e;radical"e; 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 "e;do good always."e; 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.