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Charles Dickens (1812 – 1870)
Nationality: British | Periods: British: 19th Century |
journalist, novelist, wrote about poverty in England
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Criticism about Charles Dickens
- Characterization in Dickens
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/charov.html
- This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.
- Contains: Criticism, Commentary
- From: Victorian Web
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- Charles Dickens — Literary Relations
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/ge/litrel.html
- This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.
- Contains: Criticism, Commentary
- From: Victorian Web
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- Charles Dickens — Social and Political Contexts
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/societyov.html
- This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.
- Contains: This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.
- From: Victorian Web
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- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
- “Dickens is an author by whom Gissing had been deeply influenced.”
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: George Gissing
- From: London: Blackie, 1898
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- The City of Dickens
- http://books.iuniverse.com/viewbooks.asp?isbn=1583482237
- “The worship of hearth and home that culminates in the nineteenth century, and which survives in our own lives, is not fully explicable without the pressures that the modern city has brought to bear upon it. Alexander Welsh treats The City of Dickens both as a historical reality and as a metaphor that provides a context for values and purposes expressed by the English novel.”
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Welsh, Alexander
- From: iUniverse Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1971.
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- Dickens
- https://www.bartleby.com/lit-hub/authors/#10
- This lengthy analysis of the author’s life and work includes sections on “Early life “, “Oliver Twist “, “Nicholas Nickleby “, “David Copperfield “, “A Tale of Two Cities “, and “Great Expectations .”
- Contains: Extensive Bio, Criticism, Bibliography
- Author: George Saintsbury
- From: The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume XIII: English, The Victorian Age, Part One, The Nineteenth Century, II
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- Dickens and the Rhetoric of Laughter
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/kincaid2/contents.htm…
- Book-length critical work that explores the use of laughter in the fiction of Dickens.
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: James R. Kincaid
- From: The Victorian Web Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971
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- The Immortal Dickens
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: George Gissing
- From: 1925
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- 19th Century Gallery
- http://members.cruzio.com/~varese/dickens/gallery.html
- A compilation of comments by Dickens’ contemporaries, as well as some by 20th century authors. Includes comments by: Alcott, Chesterton, George Eliot, Emerson, Hardy, Henry James, Longfellow, Shaw, Thackeray, Tolstoy, Twain, Queen Victoria (among others).
- Contains: Criticism, Commentary, Pictures
- Author: Philadelphia Branch of the Dickens Fellowship
- Keywords: contemporary criticism
- Themes in Charles Dickens’s Writings
- http://www.victorianweb.org/authors/dickens/themeov.html
- This site from Victorian web contains a number of well-written undergraduate student essays under the direction of Professor George Landow.
- Contains: Commentary, Criticism
- From: Victorian Web
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- Vanishing Points: Dickens, Narrative, & the Subject of Omniscience
- http://www-ucpress.berkeley.edu:3030/dynaweb/public/books/literat…
- “In traditional narrative theory, the term “omniscience” refers to a narrator’s absolute knowledge and authority. Narrative theory provides no social, historical, or psychological context for omniscience, nor does it attempt to explain the predominance of omniscient narration in nineteenth-century British fiction. Audrey Jaffe uses Dickens’s novels and sketches to redefine narrative omniscience as a problematic that has implications for the construction of Victorian subjectivity, giving us new insights into Dickens and into other fiction as well. Jaffe demonstrates that omniscience is the effect of a series of oppositions–between narrator and character, knowledge and its absence, sympathy and irony, privacy and publicity. Showing how these oppositions participate in and enforce Victorian ideas about family, the subject, and private life, this study illuminates connections between ideology and narrative form.”
- Contains: Criticism
- Author: Jaffe, Audrey
- From: The University of California Press: 1991
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Biographical sites about Charles Dickens
- Charles Dickens Gad’s Hill Place
- http://www.perryweb.com/Dickens/index.html
- A well-designed site which presents information on Dickens’ life and works, a searchable quote archive, and links to related sites, including some online texts.
- Contains: Webliography, Works List, Works Available, Extensive Bio, Pictures
- Author: Marsha Perry
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- David Perdue’s Charles Dickens Page
- http://www.fidnet.com/~dap1955/dickens/
- This site contains bibliographies, timelines, some plot summaries and details of Dickens’ London. It also contains information on Dickens’ travels in America and his influence on the celebration of Christmas.
- Contains: Timeline, Pictures, Bibliography, Webliography, Works List, Commentary
- Author: David Perdue
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Other sites about Charles Dickens
- The Dickens’ Society
- Includes an index to the print publication, The DIckens Quarterly.
- Contains: Bibliography
- Author: The Dickens’ Society
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