Dickens and the politics of the family /

The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality. But while nineteenth-century reviewers praised Dickens as the pre-eminent novelist of the family, any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential...

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Autor principal: Waters, Catherine
Format: Licensed eBooks
Idioma:anglès
Publicat: Cambridge, U.K. ; New York, N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Accés en línia:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=54571
Taula de continguts:
  • Introduction: the making and breaking of the family
  • Fractured families in the early novels: Oliver Twist and Dombey and Son
  • Dickens, Christmas and the family
  • Little Dorrit
  • A Tale of Two Cities
  • Great Expectations
  • Our Mutual Friend.