The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars that cover the whole range of Dickens' writing. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens' distinctive use of language. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of his novels.
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"Individually and collectively, these essays are worth reading..." Dickens Quarterly
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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen chapters by leading international scholars that cover the whole range of Dickens' writing. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens' distinctive use of language. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of his novels.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Indispensible!,
By Mrs. Peel "Literature Lover" (Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
Whether you read Dickens for your own enjoyment or for academic pursuits, you will find this book invaluable. What I like most about this "Companion" is that its fourteen chapters provide new, brilliant, and thought-provoking "lenses" through which to view his novels as I re-read them, as I have done countless times in the last half-century. My favorite Dickens' novels are "Our Mutual Friend" and "Great Expectations," so I eagerly chose Chapter 6, Brian Cheadle's "The late novels: "Great Expectations" and "Our Mutual Friend" to read first. What delight! Cheadle's essay alone is worth the price of this book. This "Companion" does not disappoint.
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I've read all of Dickens' novels and take a back seat to no one in my appreciation of them, but I found this Cambridge Companion less than completely satisfying. Several of the authors did a very good job of covering their assigned topics, but several others narrowed their focus too much and seemed to be straining too hard to say something original (e.g., uncovering obscure parallels between this Dickens novel and that Shakespearean play). In academia, being original is highly prized, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that this collection of essays turned out the way it did.
With roughly ten thousand pages available to draw upon, it seems like there's plenty to be said about Dickens' novels--commentary that would enrich the Dickens reader's experience--without becoming overly cute. I don't mean to be unreasonably harsh. This book deserves all four stars I gave it. Still, I was hoping for something a little bit different.
6 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
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Good guide to what's new with Dickens,
By DAVID (British Columbia) - See all my reviews
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This provides some interesting critical essays of recent scholarship on Dickens work. A must have for any student of Dickens.
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Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Lady Dedlock, Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby, Oxford University Press, Miss Havisham, Cambridge University Press, Dickens Studies Annual, Martin Chuzzlewit, Spectacular Theatre, University of Chicago Press, Pickwick Papers, Clarendon Press, David Lean, Esther Summerson, Winter's Tale, Amy Dorrit, Harvard University Press, Household Words, Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol New!
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What does it mean to write the life and times of a major writer in the era of poststructuralist literary theory? Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
original illustrators, blacking factory, domestic ideology Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Lady Dedlock, Our Mutual Friend, Nicholas Nickleby, Oxford University Press, Miss Havisham, Cambridge University Press, Dickens Studies Annual, Martin Chuzzlewit, Spectacular Theatre, University of Chicago Press, Pickwick Papers, Clarendon Press, David Lean, Esther Summerson, Winter's Tale, Amy Dorrit, Harvard University Press, Household Words, Tale of Two Cities, Christmas Carol New!
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- Oliver Twist (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 39 pages
- David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens on 37 pages
- Great Expectations (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 35 pages
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- Common Scents: Comparative Encounters in High-Victorian Fiction by Janice Carlisle on 4 pages
- The Culture of History: English Uses of the Past 1800-1953 by Billie Melman on 4 pages
- Social Dreaming: Dickens and the Fairy Tale (Studies in Major Literary Authors) by Elaine Ostry in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Victorian Religious Discourse: New Directions in Criticism by Jude V. Nixon on page 229, and Back Matter
- Dickens on Screen by John Glavin in Front Matter, and page 38
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