Other Dickens : Pickwick to Chuzzlewit
In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most celebrated and funny of all English novels, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. This is the first full-length study of the earlier novels for thirty years. John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to show how the novels continue to surprise and delight their readers.
VIII, 232 p. 23 cm
9780199261406, 0199261407
1014891160
Introduction ; Arbitrary and Despotic Characters ; Adjestin' the Differences: The Pickwick Papers ; Nancy's Truth: Oliver Twist and the 'Stray Chapters' ; Performing Business, Training Ghosts: Nicholas Nickelby ; Nell's Crypt: The Old Curiosity Shop and Master Humphrey's Clock ; History's Grip: Barnaby Rudge ; The Genealogy of Monsters: Martin Chuzzlewit ; Index