Brian Murray

The Bedside, Bathtub & Armchair Companion to Dickens

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The Bedside Dickens provides a lively look at this great novelist's life and career. It sheds light on his role as a polemicist and journalist and explores the way his work was long informed by his Christian faith. It also reveals his most persistent literary themes and provides a vivid sense of how, among his contemporaries, Dickens' vast success-and his radical politics-provoked both admiration and scorn. Dickens, this study reminds us, saw life as a battle, but as both a novelist and journalist he sought to provide a more hopeful worldview. He repeatedly satirized vice and folly, even as he urged his readers and the leaders of his day to b… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-1-4411-5425-5
EAN: 9781441154255
Produktnummer: 13815584
Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2009
Seitenangabe: 184 S.
Plattform: PDF
Masse: 35'941 KB
Abbildungen: 150

Über den Autor

Brian Murray is the author of H.G Wells and Charles Dickens: Literature and Life, and a contributor and adviser to the Encyclopedia of World Literature in the 20th Century and The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature. His essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in a variety of scholarly and popular publications, including First Things, The Weekly Standard, and The Baltimore Sun.