19th Century
A01=John Lucas
Author_John Lucas
BARNABY RUDGE
Bleak House
Category=DSBF
Category=DSK
Ch 22
Criticism
Curiosity Shop
David Copperfield
Dickens
Dickens social context exploration
Dotheboys Hall
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eq_biography-true-stories
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freedom and determinism
Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance Association
human nature philosophy
Idyllic Mode
Interpolated Tales
Lady Dedlock
literary criticism methodology
Literature
Martin Chuzzlewit
Melancholy Man
Miss Havisham
Miss Tox
Miss Wade
Mr Pickwick
Mrs Clennam
Mrs Skewton
Mutual Friend
narrative structure study
Nicholas Nickleby
nineteenth-century English fiction
Novel
Oliver Twist
Pickwick Papers
Staggs's Gardens
United Grand Junction Ebenezer Temperance
Victorian literature analysis
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781138675551
- Weight: 890g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The author considers the peculiarity of Dickens being unanimously acclaimed as a great writer considering the difficulty in placing him definitively within the literary tradition. The author argues Dickens was an isolated figure, indifferent to changing fashions and with a strong sense of the dignity of human nature and that this formed the basis of his character and writings.
