Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
From the rear cover
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.Details
- Title Charles Dickens
- Author Lyn Pykett
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 207
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Date 2002-09
- Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index
- ISBN 9780333728024 / 0333728025
- Weight 0.85 lbs (0.39 kg)
- Dimensions 8.66 x 5.84 x 0.69 in (22.00 x 14.83 x 1.75 cm)
-
Themes
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Dickens, Charles - Criticism and
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2002020891
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.8
More Copies for Sale
Charles Dickens: 10 (Critical Issues)
by Lyn Pykett
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780333728024 / 0333728025
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
GORING BY SEA, West Sussex, United Kingdom
- Item Price
-
$5.05$11.08 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Hardback. Very Good.
Item Price
$5.05
$11.08
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Charles Dickens
by Lyn Pykett
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780333728024 / 0333728025
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
$13.50$3.50 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Red Globe Press. Used - Very Good. 2002. hardcover. Cloth, no dj. (as issued). Slight shelf-wear, else bright and clean. Very Good. (Subject: Books).
Item Price
$13.50
$3.50
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Charles Dickens
by Lyn Pykett
- New
- Hardcover
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780333728024 / 0333728025
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Item Price
-
$14.12$3.50 shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
Red Globe Press. New. 2002. 2002nd Edition. hardcover. New.
Item Price
$14.12
$3.50
shipping to USA
Stock Photo: Cover May Be Different
Charles Dickens
by Pykett, Lyn
- Used
- Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Used - Good
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10 / ISBN 13
- 9780333728024 / 0333728025
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Seller
-
Newport Coast, California, United States
- Item Price
-
$51.16FREE shipping to USA
Show Details
Description:
hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.
Item Price
$51.16
FREE shipping to USA