Dickens and the grotesque / Michael Hollington
1984, First Edition. London : Croom Helm. Fine cloth copy in a very good, slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #386290
ISBN: 0389204579
Physical description: 261p ; 23cm. Notes: Bibliography: p247-255. - Includes index.
Contents: The grotesque tradition, ancient and modern -- The romance of real life: Sketches by Boz and Pickwick papers -- 'They always die when I'm at meals': Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby -- The old curiosity shop and the new curiosity shop -- The grotesque in history: Barnaby Rudge and A tale of two cities -- The grotesque in America: American notes and Martin Chuzzlewit -- The new picturesque: Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit -- Narrative perspective and the grotesque: Master Humphrey's closk, the Christmas books and The uncommercial traveller -- The child's perception of the grotesque: Dombey and son and David Copperfield -- Ironic infernos: Bleak House, Hard Times and Ruskin's conception of the grotesque -- The grotesque and tragicomedy: Great expectations -- Opium and the grotesque: Our mutual friend and Edwin Drood.
Subjects: Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870.
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Critique et interprétation.
Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation.
Dickens, Charles. Grotesque in literature.
English literature 19th century History and criticism. Grotesque in literature. Grotesque in literature. Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Early Victorian period English literature Grotesque. Das Groteske
Grotesque in literature.
Roman. Fiction in English Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Special themes Grotesque 1812-1870. - Critical studies. Fiction in English. Dickens, Charles, Special themes: Grotesque. Fiction in English Dickens, Charles 1812-1870 Special themes, Grotesque Critical studies.
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