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基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 1999. 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.
Full Description
In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and transforms our ways of understanding Dickens's work and his place in the history of the novel.
Contents
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
