This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the protagonists in Dickens's autobiographical novels. Taking Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic concept of abjection and Mary Douglas's anth
Meg Pickel’s older brother, Orion, has disappeared. One night, she steals out to look for him and makes two surprising discoveries: she stumbles upon a seance that she suspects involves Orion, and she
The story of Charles Dickens’ childhood is dominated by a single narrative, mostly written down by Dickens himself, then edited, arranged and supplemented by John Forster. His time spent working at a
Charles Dickens's letters provide vivid close-up snapshots of a life lived at maximum intensity. This volume offers the first selection to be made from the magisterial twelve-volume British Academy Pi
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 o
?Charles Dickens once commented that in each of his Christmas stories there is “an express text preached on . . . always taken from the lips of Christ.” This preaching, Linda M. Lewis contends, does n
While Dickens's religion and religious thought is recognized as a significant component of his work, no study of Dickens's religion has carefully considered his often ignored, yet crucially relevant,
Acclaimed actor and writer Simon Callow offers a fresh perspective on one of the greatest novelists in the English language, Charles Dickens, in this lively, colorful biography. Dickens was one of the
1858年5-8月，維多利亞時代的倫敦經歷酷夏，因大量污水排入泰晤士河，發生了大惡臭（The Great Stink）。作者羅斯瑪麗·阿什頓以倫敦大惡臭為背景，結合當年通過的《泰晤士河淨化法案》《醫療法》和《離婚法》等多種法案的產生過程，講述了達爾文、狄更斯和時任財政大臣的迪斯累裡那一年豐富而曲折的經歷。倫敦大學學院英語文學榮退教授羅斯瑪麗?阿什頓借助近年普遍實現數字化的維多利亞時代的報刊、書信、
"Lucy Bloom, broke and single, wants to start over. She leaps at the offer of a high-paying gig clearing clutter from the home of eccentric painter Marva Meier Rios. Rolling up her sleeves to take on
