Peter Conrad

Dickens the Enchanter

Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

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Produktbeschreibung

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickensâ s superhuman imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 162mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 508g
• ISBN-13: 9781399409193
• ISBN-10: 1399409190
• Artikelnr.: 70942115

Autorenporträt

Peter Conrad is a literary critic and cultural historian. His books include The Everyman History of English Literature; Creation: Artists, Gods & Origins; and Modern Times, Modern Places: Life and Art in the Twentieth Century.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: A Visionary Companion
1 On Planet Dick
2 In the Family
3 In the Dark
4 Cabbalistic Words
5 The Great Creator
6 Devilkins
7 In Arabia
8 Species and Origins
9 In the Carvery
10 In the Forge
11 Arranging the Universe
12 Heroes of His Own Life
13 The So Potent Art
14 In the Crypt
Acknowledgements
Select Bibliography
Index

Rezensionen

If you have not read Dickens for a while – or ever – this reading of the novels will convert you. Reading Conrad, who for many years taught English literature at Oxford, makes you realise why so many of his hundreds of former pupils adore and praise him.