The Secret of Dickens (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Dyke, Joseph S. Van

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1440064946 ISBN 13 : 9781440064944

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Discover how Dickens helped redefine realism in the English novel, blending art, ethics, and social purpose.

This scholarly look at Dickens examines how his art, social vision, and humane impulse reshaped the way novels portray everyday life. It places Dickens among key 19th‑century writers and traces how his work influenced ideas about society, progress, and human feeling without losing narrative vitality.

• Learn how Dickens combines vivid character drawing with a clear ethical aim to redefine literary realism.
• See how his work connected to broader movements and figures of the era, including friends and rivals in a changing literary landscape.
• Explore the idea of the novel with a purpose and the lasting impact of Dickens on later writers and readers.
• Understand the historical context that shaped his art, from social reform to the evolving English novel.

Ideal for readers of Dickens, literary history, and the study of the realist novel.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Perhaps no living critic is quite adequate to its complete discharge. Yet, for reasons that I shall presently set forth, it appears to me of paramount importance that an attempt should be made. At first sight, it may, indeed, seem little short of fatuous to assert that, during momentous days such as these in which we are now living, literature and literary art and criticism have claims upon our attention such as they never had before. The nation has just emerged, bloody and victorious, from the most ghastly war that has ever been waged, every hour of which brought not only its tale of triumph and terror, of heroism and endurance but also of desolation, of misery, of all the unspeakable agonies, all the incurable ills that from day to day were inflicted upon the human race. For four and a half years we have endured the ghastly miasma of the world tottering upon its foundations and tumbling to ruins; of our ideals and our dreams being shattered and cast into oblivion; of our vast and intricate structure of civilisation being trampled underfoot by the iron heel of War. All this, and much more that need not be reiterated, have we endured, cheering ourselves during all this long and gloomy night-time, with the thought that .. .. Night comes that day may break. Each into each dies, each of each is born: Day past is night, shall night past not be morn? And now the night is over and done, and the glorious dawntide of our dreams is at hand. The realisation has been growing upon us that the day that is being ushered in is not one of ease and relaxation after our struggle. It marks but the beginning of new struggles different and perhaps even greater than the Titanic contest with Prussianism.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1440064946
• ISBN 13: 9781440064944
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
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