Charles Dickens, Updated EditionHarold Bloom Infobase Publishing, 2009 - 284 pages In recounting a childhood experience, Charles Dickens once said that he was "inspired by a mighty faith in the marvellousness of everything." Later in life, this inspiration revealed itself in the literature he wrote and in the worlds he created. Few writ |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
The Great Popularity | 27 |
Dickenss Radicalism Plausibility and His Image of the Working Man | 39 |
Introduction to Great Expectations | 59 |
Little Dorrit | 71 |
The Heroes and Heroines of Dickens | 83 |
Mr Micawber and the Redefinition of Experience | 91 |
Dickens and Violence | 105 |
The Taught Self | 195 |
Dickens and Language | 215 |
A Review of Some Morbid Observations | 233 |
Afterthought | 245 |
Chronology | 249 |
Contributors | 257 |
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Acknowledgments | 267 |
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