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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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