Jon Sutherland

The Dickens Dictionary (eBook, ePUB)

An A-Z of Britain's Greatest Novelist

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

For fans old and new, this is a fascinating tour through Charles Dickens’s novels in the hands of a master critic and interpreter of his work. Oliver Twist … Great Expectations … David Copperfield - all contain riotous fictional worlds that still live and breathe for readers today. But how much do we really know about the dazzling imagination that brought this all into being? To celebrate the bicentenary of the birth of Dickens in 2012, Victorian literature expert John Sutherland has created a gloriously wide-ranging alphabetical companion to Dickens’s novels, excavating the hidden links between his characters, themes, and preoccupations, and the minutiae of his endlessly inventive wordplay. Covering Baby Farming, Bastards, Cannibalism, Christmas, Darwin, Fog, Gruel, London, Micawberomics, Murder, Pubs, Punishment, Smells, Spontaneous Combustion and Zoo Horrors to name but a few, Sutherland gives us a uniquely personal guide to the greatest novelist England has ever produced.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Icon Books
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781848313927
• Artikelnr.: 38451460

Autorenporträt

John Sutherland is the recently retired Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus at University College London: a title that one feels Dickens might have had some fun with. He has taught and published widely, particularly on Victorian fiction. His most recent relevant books are The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction (Longman, 2009) and Lives of the Novelists: A History of Fiction in 294 Lives (Profile, 2011). He and Stephen Fender published Love, Sex, Death and Words: Surprising Tales from a Year in Literature with Icon Books in 2010.