Dickens and creativity / Barbara Hardy.

Author/creator Hardy, Barbara
Format Book
Publication InfoLondon ; New York : Continuum, ©2008.
Descriptionxvi, 181 pages ; 24 cm
Subjects

Contents A career and its context -- Dickens discusses creativity -- The awareness of art in Sketches by Boz, Pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas carol and The chimes -- The artist as narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great expectations -- Talkative men and women in Pickwick papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit -- Imaginative extremes, negations and norms -- Subversions and oppositions -- Crises of imagination in Oliver Twist, A Christmas carol, Domeby and son, Bleak house, Hard times and The lazy tour of two idle apprentices -- Forecast and fantasy in Little Dorrit -- Creative conversation in Hard times, Great expectations and Our mutual friend -- Assertions of style : rhythm and repetition in A tale of two cities and Our mutual friend -- Shakespeare in Dickens : David Copperfield and Great expectations -- Dickens in the twentieth century.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [175]-177) and index.
LCCN 2008026928
ISBN9780826495266 (hbk.)
ISBN0826495265 (hbk.)
ISBN9781847064592 (pbk.)
ISBN1847064590 (pbk.)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PR 4588 .H283 2008 ✔ Available Place Hold