The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens
Anniversary edition
(Sprache: Englisch)
This anniversary edition of the Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens celebrates 200 years since the birth of one of Britain's most popular authors. Covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context in over 500 A-Z articles, this is the...
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This anniversary edition of the Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens celebrates 200 years since the birth of one of Britain's most popular authors. Covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context in over 500 A-Z articles, this is the most reliable and accessible reference work on Dickens available
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Reissued to celebrate the bicentenary of Charles Dickens's birth, The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens (formerly The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens) draws together an unparalleled diversity of information on one of Britain's greatest writers: covering his life, his works, his reputation, and his cultural context. Featuring more than 500 A-Z articles, it throws new and often unexpected light on the most familiar of Dickens's works, andexplores the experiences, events, and literature on which he drew. There is also a chronology of Dickens' life, a list of characters in his works, a list of entries by theme, a family tree, three maps, an invaluable bibliography, and a general index.
Compiled by a distinguished editorial team, and written in a lucid, easy style that would have pleased him, The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens offers a more authoritative and accessible range of information than any other reference work on Dickens.
Aspects covered include:
The private man and the public figure - his family, friends, colleagues, and convictions
The age in which he lived and worked - the people, events, and institutions that informed his writing
The places that were significant to him - his homes, his London, and the countries he visited
The ideas and social theories of the time - the attitudes he satirized and the ideologies he advocated
The works on which his reputation rests - their history, structure, inspiration, and significance
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Oxford Companion to Charles Dickens “
Acknowledgements ; Preface ; Contents ; Editorial Team ; Classified Contents List ; List of Abbreviations ; Dickens Family Tree ; How to Use this Book ; A-Z entries (with 32 pp plate section) ; Maps ; General Bibliography ; Alphabetical List of Characters ; Time Chart ; Index
Autoren-Porträt von Paul Schlicke
Dr Paul Schlicke is an internationally renowned Dickens scholar, whose works include Dickens and Popular Entertainment (1985), several Dickens critical editions, including Oxford World's Classics editions of Hard Times (1989) and Nicholas Nickleby (1990), as well as Coffee with Dickens (2008), and numerous articles and reviews.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Paul Schlicke
- Anniversary edition, 736 Seiten, 32 Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 16,7 x 24,2 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0199640181
- ISBN-13: 9780199640188
- Erscheinungsdatum: 03.11.2011
Sprache:
Englisch
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Review(s) from previous edition"will prove invaluable to scholars, readers and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond - Peter Ackroyd The Times
"exemplary ... marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian" - Robert McCrum Observer
"as valuable a tribute to collective memory as one could wish for" - Times Higher Education Supplement
"quite staggering inclusiveness ... The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens is a treasure" - Dickens Quarterly
"comes about as close to perfection as humanly possible" - Dickens Quarterly
"A comprehensive guide ... lively ... a 'must' for all Dickensian devotees" - Belfast Telegraph
"an infuriatingly brilliant book" - Wilkie Collins Society
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