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    A Companion to Charles Dickens
    A Companion to Charles Dickens
    A Companion to Charles Dickens
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    A Companion to Charles Dickens

    By David Paroissien

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    A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world.
    • Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts
    • Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist
    • Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels
    • Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform
    • Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherWiley
    Release dateApr 15, 2008
    ISBN9780470691229
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