Authors in Context: Charles Dickens

Authors in Context examines the work of major authors in relation to their own times and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Charles Dickens was both a representative Victorian and an artist who is quintessentially a 'Post-Romantic'. He was the most popular author of his age and the one who most vividly reflected the contradictory impulses of Victorian society, its energy and invention as much as its social and political anomalies. This book explores Dickens's interest in the urban phenomenon which so marks nineteenth-century culture, and it looks at the vital interconnection between his life and his art. Like his character, David Copperfield, Dickens lived his life and pursued his career 'thoroughly in earnest', but he was also a great comic writer whose work resonates well beyond his own age and continues to be recontextualized on the stage, on film, and on television.

ISBN 0199556091   Volumes 1 ISBN13 9780199556090 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 192 Publisher Oxford University Press   Published in Oxford Imprint Oxford University Press   Series title Oxford World's Classics Format Paperback   Previous ISBN 9780192840486 Publication date 23 Apr 2009   Height (mm) 195 DEWEY 823.8   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY edition DC22   Spine width (mm) 14 Pages 256   Academic level General, Tertiary education

1. Dickens's Life; 2. 'These Times of Ours': Dickens, Politics, and Society; 3. The Literary Context; 4. Urban Society: London and Class; 5. Utilitarianism, Religion, and History; 6. Science and Technology; 7. Recontextualizing Dickens

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