Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction Hartley Jenny Emeritus Professor at the University of RoehamptonPaperback / softback
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction Hartley Jenny Emeritus Professor at the University of RoehamptonPaperback / softback Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's…
Specifikacia Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction Hartley Jenny Emeritus Professor at the University of RoehamptonPaperback / softback
Charles Dickens: A Very Short Introduction Hartley Jenny Emeritus Professor at the University of RoehamptonPaperback / softback
Charles Dickens is credited with creating some of the world's best-known fictional characters, and is widely regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age. His characters have such vitality that they have leapt from his pages to enjoy flourishing lives of their own: The Artful Dodger, Miss Havisham, Scrooge, Fagin, Mr Micawber, and many many more. Even before reading the works of Dickens many people have met him already in some form or another.
Running alongside this is Dickens's relish of the In Britain, he is a national icon, and indeed he helped generate what Englishness signifies.In this Very Short Introduction Jenny Hartley explores the key themes running through Dickens's corpus of works, and considers how they reflect his attitudes towards the harsh realities of nineteenth century society and its institutions, such as the workhouses and prisons.