ENGLISH

Dickens, Europe and the New Worlds

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year
1999
ISBN
978-1-349-27356-0, 978-1-349-27354-6
DOI
10.1007/978-1-349-27354-6
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
36 MB (37887728 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
XIX, 307\319
Time added
2017-06-25 01:07:36

Description

The essays collected in this volume offer fresh readings of Dickens's travelogues and novels, often pointing to the many-sidedness of his personality. The 'uncommercial traveller' emerges as an ecumenical John Bull, chary of the alien but greedy of novelty, a man whose incursions on well-trodden or unfamiliar ground are always journeys into the uncanny. Besides dealing with the geography of the novelist's imagination, the book explores numerous 'new worlds' such as the inspiring world of Victorian science and Dickens's responses to it or the world of modern literary theory that shapes our own responses to his work.

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