Peter Conrad

Dickens the Enchanter

Inside the Explosive Imagination of the Great Storyteller

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Produktbeschreibung

A kaleidoscopic investigation of Dickens's superhuman imagination.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. Februar 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 153mm
• ISBN-13: 9781399409193
• ISBN-10: 1399409190
• Artikelnr.: 70942115

Autorenporträt

Peter Conrad is a cultural critic and historian, who has published more than 20 books on a wide variety of subjects and writes regularly for the Observer. He taught English Literature at Christ Church, Oxford for more than three decades and has lectured throughout the world. He lives in London and New York.

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

Exactly the kind of attention Dickens's writing demands and deserves, at once intimate and encyclopaedic. A compelling portrait of a writer who lived his work to the limit.