Binding: Paperback
Description: The Bedside Dickens provides a lively look at this great novelist's life and career. It sheds light on his role as a polemicist and journalist and explores the way his work was long informed by his Christian faith. It also reveals his most persistent literary themes and provides a vivid sense of how among his contemporaries Dickens vast success - and his "radical" politics - provoked both admiration and scorn. Dickens this study reminds us saw life as a battle but as both a novelist and journalist he sought to provide a more hopeful worldview. He repeatedly satirized vice and folly even as he urged his readers and the leaders of his day to be less selfish and narrow and to "do good always." Chapters and topics include: Dickens and Animals; Christmas Stories; The Magnetizer; Dickens vs. Thackeray; A Christian Writer; Dickens Down Under; What Dickens Read; Dickens and Spontaneous Combustion; Dickens and Journalism; Dickens on the Couch.
Title: The Bedside Bathtub & Armchair Companion To Dickens
Author(s): Murray Brian
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Barcode: 9780826418821
Pages: 184 Pages, 150
Language: English
Publication Date: 6/1/2009
Series: Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companions
Category: Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers