WS 2023/24 "DICKENS’S CHILDREN"

Main Author/Authors Dickens, Charles
The adventures of Oliver Twist

The Cambridge companion to Charles Dickens

The Cambridge companion to Victorian culture

Main Author/Authors Mee, Jon
The Cambridge introduction to Charles Dickens

Main Author/Authors Hawes, Donald
Charles Dickens

Main Author/Authors Hawes, Donald
Charles Dickens

Abbreviations and References -- Introduction -- 1. Why We Read Dickens -- 2. Life of Dickens -- 3. Sketches by Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist -- 4. Dickens's London -- 5. Social Class in Victorian England -- 6. Nicholas Nickleby, The Old Curiosity Shop, Barnaby Rudge -- 7. Prison and Crime -- 8. Dickens and Education -- 9. Medicine, Doctors, Nurses and Hospitals -- 10. Martin Chuzzlewit, A Christmas Carol, Dombey and Son -- 11. Women and Children in Dickens -- 12. Dickens and Animals -- 13. David Copperfield, Bleak House -- 14. Dickens's Comic Characters and Villains -- 15. Hard Times, Little Dorrit, A Tale of Two Cities -- 16. Theatre and Entertainment -- 17. Christmas Stories -- 18. Dickens's Public Readings -- 19. Dickens's Friends and Contemporaries -- 20. Great Expectations, Our Mutual Friend, The Mystery of Edwin Drood -- 21. Adaptations and Versions of Dickens's Writings -- Index --
Charles Dickens is without doubt a literary giant. The most widely read author of his own generation, his works remain incredibly popular and important today. Often seen as the quintessential Victorian novelist, his texts convey perhaps better than any others the drive for wealth and progress and the social contrasts that characterised the Victorian era. His works are widely studied throughout the world both as literary masterpieces and as classic examples of the nineteenth century novel. Combining a biographical approach with close reading of the novels, Donald Hawes offers an illuminating portrait of Dickens as a writer and insight into his life and times. This book will provide a short, lively but sophisticated introduction to Dickens's work and the personal and social context in which it was written

Main Author/Authors Pykett, Lyn
Charles Dickens

Main Author/Authors Slater, Michael
Charles Dickens: [a life defined by writing]

Main Author/Authors Tomalin, Claire
Charles Dickens: a life

Main Author/Authors Macdonald, Fiona
Charles Dickens: a very peculiar history : with no added gruel

Taking a unique look at one of the most acclaimed and best-loved English writers of the nineteenth century, 'Charles Dickens, A Very Peculiar History' asks why, what, where, how and who the Dickens was Charles Dickens? Why did he keep a pet raven that pecked at his children's shins? Why did he have a tunnel built under the road in front of his country house? Was his dying corpse really carried from his mistress's house where he collapsed to his family home, so that he could die 'respectably'

Main Author/Authors Malkovich, Amberyl
Charles Dickens and the Victorian child: romanticizing and socializing the imperfect child

Main Author/Authors Malkovich, Amberyl
Charles Dickens and the Victorian child: romanticizing and socializing the imperfect child

ch. 1. Please sir, I want some more : learning ... at any cost -- ch. 2. I believe, I believe! : fairies, their world, and authorial preservation -- ch. 3. Belittling and being little : resisting socially imposed physical and gendered limitations -- ch. 4. A beautiful decay : disease, death, and eternal longing of the imperfect child -- ch. 5. Mining the missing link : contemporary constructions of the imperfect child

Charles Dickens in context

This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens lived and worked.
Intro -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Notes on contributors -- Preface -- Notes on references -- Part I: Life and Afterlife -- 1 The life of Dickens 1: before Ellen Ternan -- 2 The life of Dickens 2: after Ellen Ternan -- 3 Dickens's lives -- 4 Victorian stage adaptations and novel appropriations -- 5 Reviewing Dickens in the Victorian periodical press -- 6 The European context -- 7 Major twentieth-century critical responses -- 8 Modern stage adaptations -- 9 Modern screen adaptations -- 10 The heritage industry -- 11 Neo-Victorian Dickens -- Part II: Social and Cultural Contexts -- 12 Popular culture -- 13 The rise of celebrity culture -- 14 The newspaper and periodical market -- 15 Authorship and the professional writer -- 16 The theatre -- 17 Melodrama -- 18 The Bildungsroman -- 19 Visual culture -- 20 The historical novel -- 21 The illustrated novel -- 22 Christmas -- 23 Childhood -- 24 Work -- 25 Europe -- 26 The Victorians and America -- 27 Educating the Victorians -- 28 London -- 29 Politics -- 30 Political economy -- 31 The aristocracy -- 32 The middle classes -- 33 Urban migration and mobility -- 34 Financial markets and the banking system -- 35 Empires and colonies -- 36 Race -- 37 Crime -- 38 The law -- 39 Religion -- 40 Science -- 41 Transport -- 42 Illness, disease and social hygiene -- 43 Domesticity -- 44 Sexuality -- 45 Gender identities -- Further reading -- Index.

Main Author/Authors Pointer, Michael
Charles Dickens on the screen: the film, television, and video adaptations

The child in British literature: literary constructions of childhood, medieval to contemporary

The first volume to consider childhood over eight centuries of British writing, this book traces the literary child from medieval to contemporary texts. Written by international experts, the volume's essays challenge earlier readings of childhood and offer fascinating contributions to the current upsurge of interest in constructions of childhood

Main Author/Authors McCulloch, Fiona
Children's literature in context

Children's Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied texts including Lewis Carroll's Alice books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials trilogy highlight major themes and ways of reading children's literature

Main Author/Authors McCulloch, Fiona
Children's literature in context

Children's Literature in Context is a clear, accessible and concise introduction to children's literature and its wider contexts. It begins by introducing key issues involved in the study of children's literature and its social, cultural and literary contexts. Close readings of commonly studied texts including Lewis Carroll's Alice books, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, the Harry Potter series and the His Dark Materials trilogy highlight major themes and ways of reading children's literature. A chapter on afterlives and adaptations explores a range of wider cultural texts including the film adaptations of Harry Potter, The Chronicles of Narnia and The Golden Compass. The final section introduces key critical interpretations from different perspectives on issues including innocence, gender, fantasy, psychoanalysis and ideology. 'Review, Reading and Research' sections give suggestions for further reading, discussion and research. Introducing texts, contexts and criticism, this is a lively and up-to-date resource for anyone studying children's literature.
Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Series Editors' Preface -- PART I: CONTEXTS -- Chapter One: Social and Cultural Context -- Growing Pains -- Suffer the Little Children -- Coming of Age? -- Idealized Childhood -- Twentieth-Century Childhood -- Contemporary Childhood -- Chapter Two: Literary Context -- Beginnings -- Puritan Interventions -- A Literature of Their Own? -- Reaching the First Golden Age -- Maturing - The Second Golden Age -- Facing the Future - The Third Golden Age -- Review -- Reading -- Research -- PART 2: TEXTS -- Chapter Three: Texts -- Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1872) -- Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island (1883) -- L. Frank Baum - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (1900) -- Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden (1911) -- C. S. Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (1950) -- J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter (1997-2007) -- Philip Pullman - His Dark Materials (1995-2000) -- Julie Bertagna - Exodus (2002) and Zenith (2007) -- Reading -- Research -- Chapter Four: Critical Contexts -- Early Critics -- Significant Criticism -- James R. Kincaid, John Stephens, Perry Nodelman, David Rudd and Hugh Cunningham -- Chapter Five: Afterlives and Adaptations -- Reading -- Research -- Bibliography -- Index.

Main Author/Authors Dickens, Charles
A Christmas carol

Main Author/Authors Dickens, Charles
A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of Christmas.

Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol under financial duress, but it became one of his most popular and enduring stories. The old miser Ebenezer Scrooge cares nothing for family, friends, love or Christmas. All he cares about is money. Then one Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts: Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Yet To Come. These encounters leave Scrooge deeply moved and forever changed. Historians believe that A Christmas Carol contributed greatly to.

Main Author/Authors Guida, Fred
A Christmas carol and its adaptations: a critical examination of Dickens's story and its productions on screen and television