Literary History

Dickens looks at the city from several aspects and his relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. This anthology of criticism shows how Dickens thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene and is a major contribution to ..

This selection of previously published research articles by internationally renowned scholars places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and against a background of a growing and more literate population and an outpouring of print materials. The volume anchors Dick..

This selection of previously published research articles by internationally renowned scholars places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and against a background of a growing and more literate population and an outpouring of print materials. The volume anchors Dick..

First published in 1988, this book looks at the enormous impact Dickens’ writings had on American novelists in the second half of the nineteenth century. Dickens dominated not only popular taste but the American novel for sixty years and the author argues that even the most original writers showed t..

This substantial study of the four novels published between 1843 and 1853 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Bleak House - discovers in the representation of family relationships a paradigm for Dickens's authorial development during this turbulent decade. Interweaving textual..

This substantial study of the four novels published between 1843 and 1853 - Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, David Copperfield and Bleak House - discovers in the representation of family relationships a paradigm for Dickens's authorial development during this turbulent decade. Interweaving textual..

This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender, as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences, over the course of his literary career from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays provide an int..

This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender, as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences, over the course of his literary career from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays provide an int..

First published in 1981, this book attempts to approach a better understanding of Disraeli the man through his life as a novelist. It is not a series of literary criticisms, rather an attempt to see how ‘fiction’ and the act of ‘fictionalising’ played an important part in Disraeli’s life. The author..

The two note-books of the diary of Mme. Dostoevsky, the rough notes of her lengthy Reminiscences, unfinished at the time of her death, all in her own hand-writing, and copies of her husband’s letters to her from 1866 to 1881, were found in August 1922. This volume, first published in 1923, presents ..

This book offers an introduction to literary reading, how to perform a close analysis of an unfamiliar text, and how to articulate responses. It is a valuable resource for those entering the conversation about literary reading as it is being reshaped by humanists and literary scholars in the wake of..

This book offers an introduction to literary reading, how to perform a close analysis of an unfamiliar text, and how to articulate responses. It is a valuable resource for those entering the conversation about literary reading as it is being reshaped by humanists and literary scholars in the wake of..