02153nam a22003258a 4500001001600000003000700016005001700023006001900040007001500059008004100074020002600115020002900141020003000170040002400200050002300224082001500247100002300262245008400285264005200369300005900421336002600480337002600506338003600532490004200568500007300610520099500683776003501678830004301713856007101756CR9780511780646UkCbUP20180107143413.0m|||||o||d||||||||cr||||||||||||100519s2010||||enk     s     ||1 0|eng|d  a9780511780646 (ebook)  z9780521859141 (hardback)  z9780521676342 (paperback)  aUkCbUPcUkCbUPerda00aPR4588 b.M44 201000a823/.82221 aMee, Jon,eauthor.14aThe Cambridge Introduction to Charles Dickens / [electronic resource]cJon Mee. 1aCambridge :bCambridge University Press,c2010.  a1 online resource (134 pages) :bdigital, PDF file(s).  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier0 aCambridge Introductions to Literature  aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).  aCharles Dickens became immensely popular early on in his career as a novelist, and his appeal continues to grow with new editions prompted by recent television and film adaptations, as well as large numbers of students studying the Victorian novel. This lively and accessible introduction to Dickens focuses on the extraordinary diversity of his writing. Jon Mee discusses Dickens's novels, journalism and public performances, the historical contexts and his influence on other writers. In the process, five major themes emerge: Dickens the entertainer; Dickens and language; Dickens and London; Dickens, gender, and domesticity; and the question of adaptation, including Dickens's adaptations of his own work. These interrelated concerns allow readers to start making their own new connections between his famous and less widely read works and to appreciate fully the sheer imaginative richness of his writing, which particularly evokes the dizzying expansion of nineteenth-century London.08iPrint version: z9780521859141 0aCambridge Introductions to Literature.40uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511780646zCambridge Books Online