Jeremy Tambling

Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens's texts.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 182
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429632075
• Artikelnr.: 56843169

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Tambling was formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University and before that, Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

He is author of several books, three of them on Dickens: Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold(Macmillan 1995), Going Astray: Dickens and London (Longman, 2008), and Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and the Literature of the City (Routledge 2014). He edited David Copperfield for Penguin (2004) and has written numerous articles on early modern and nineteenth century literature, and critical and cultural theory. His most recent book was Histories of the Devil: Marlowe to Mann, and the Manichees (Macmillan, 2017).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Introduction: Early Dickens
Chapter 1: From Papers to Novel
Chapter 2: Mr Squeers
Chapter 3: Benevolence and Humour
Chapter 4: Pantomime and Melodrama
Chapter 5: Of 'Conglomeration' and Hypocrisy
Chapter 6: London and the Dance of Death
Conclusion: London's Squares
Bibliography