Umfang:
1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 225 pages)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0300082037
,
0300147643
,
9780300082036
,
9780300147643
Inhalt:
"Welsh closely examines the two novels Dickens wrote after David Copperfield and reassesses the importance of this crucial stage of Dickens's career." "In spite of the famous double narrative of Bleak House, says Welsh, the various actions and roles of the characters answer the needs of the protagonist much as they do in David Copperfield. Dickens redresses himself as the female narrator Esther Summerson and at the same time redirects his artistic energy in forms less explicitly personal. When he wrote Hard Times - which can be considered an epilogue to the much longer Bleak House - Dickens was able to conceive a plot neither centered around a hero nor fueled by the kind of wish fulfillment that structure had implied. Welsh's engaging discussion and original insights into two of Dickens's most successful novels will enhance the enthusiast's pleasure in reading these works and inspire longtime students of the novelist to think about Dickens's extraordinary accomplishments in new ways."--Jacket
Inhalt:
Bleak house and Dickens -- Esther Summerson, heroine -- Ada Clare, pride and beauty -- Honoria, Lady Dedlock -- Jarndyce and Skimpole -- The novel's satire -- The novel's judgment -- Dickens in Coketown -- Louisa Gragrind's role -- The novel and the circus
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 211-222) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Welsh, Alexander Dickens redressed
Sprache:
Englisch
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