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Charles Dickens

Author: Harold Maltz; Miriam Maltz
Publisher: San Diego : Greenhaven Press, ©2003.
Series: People who made history.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : English
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Genre/Form: Biography
Named Person: Charles Dickens; Charles Dickens
Material Type: Biography, Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Harold Maltz; Miriam Maltz
ISBN: 0737716010 9780737716016 0737716029 9780737716023
OCLC Number: 51040463
Description: 220 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents: Formative influence on Dicken's early life. The boy in the blacking factory / Edgar Johnson ; Dicken's vision of the child / Frank Donovan ; Dicken's art reflects his own life / Peter Ackroyd --
Dickens as a social critic. Dickens's negative opinion of Parliament / Angus Wilson ; Dickens condemns Victorian public education / Philip Collins ; The historical context of Bleak House / Graham Storey ; Dickens as social reformer / Ivor Brown ; The social impact of Dickens' novels / Louis Cazamian ; Two contradictory views of society in Dickens' work / Kate Flint --
Dickens's development as writer. From escapism to social realism / Ivor Brown ; An increasing readership / Michael Wheeler ; The serial publication of Dickens' novels / John Butt and Kathleen Tillotson ; Life into art, autobiography into fiction / Fred Kaplan ; Dickens's social philosophy in the major works of the 1850s / Allan Grant ; The criminal and the rebel / Edmund Wilson --
Dickens's mature years. Dickens's condescending attitude to women / Michael Slater ; An illicit affair: Dickens and Ellen Ternan / Martin Fido ; Dickens's love of the theater / Emlyn Williams ; An American reading tour / Norman and Jeanne MacKenzie --
Dickens's literary reputation. Homage to Dickens / Robert B. Partlow Jr. --
The genius of Dickens / Barbara Hardy.
Series Title: People who made history.
Responsibility: Harold Maltz and Miriam Maltz, book editors.
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