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The Top 10 Charles Dickens Books
SUBSCRIBE: PRINT + DIGITAL LOGOUT FREE NEWSLETTERS SELF-PUBLISHING JOBZONE THE MILLIONS Search Publishers Weekly Home > News > PW Tip Sheet The Top 10 Charles Dickens Books By Robert Gottlieb | Nov 30, 2012 Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens is an outstanding biography of the writer with an eye toward his children, including the scandalous possible existence of an 11th child, born to Dickens's mistress. Robert Gottlieb, former Knopf editor, New Yorker editor, and lifelong Dickens reader, gives us the 10 best books from the master. For more on the book, check out our Q&A with Gottlieb. Charles Dickens left us fifteen novels, and in an ideal world everyone would read all of them. (Well, maybe not – Barnaby Rudge is a tired and tiresome historical novel that the young Dickens kept putting off writing until contractual obligations forced him to finish it.) His first published book was MORE FROM PW Sketches by Boz – a collection of short pieces that brought him considerable attention. By the time he was finished with his second book – The Pickwick Papers, serialized between March, 1836 and October, 1837 – he was, at twenty-five, the best-known writer in England, and such he remained until his death, at fifty-eight, in 1870. The energy, the fun, the power, the compassion of his work is unmatched in English literature, with the obvious. How do you rate works of genius? Partly by personal inclination, partly by accepted wisdom, partly by popularity. Perhaps his most widely known works are A Christmas Carol and A Tale of Two Writers to Watch: Spring 2020 Cities, and both are wonderful, but they don’t make my own top ten list. -
Charles Dickens' Corruption and Idealization Personified in Oliver Twist
Western Oregon University Digital Commons@WOU Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings Student Scholarship 2018-06-02 Charles Dickens’ Corruption and Idealization Personified in Oliver Twist Ellie Phillips Western Oregon University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/aes Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Phillips, Ellie, "Charles Dickens’ Corruption and Idealization Personified in Oliver Twist" (2018). Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings. 150. https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/aes/150 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship at Digital Commons@WOU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Academic Excellence Showcase Proceedings by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons@WOU. For more information, please contact [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]. Byrd 1 Ellie Byrd Dr. Lange ENG 218w Charles Dickens’ Corruption and Idealization Personified in Oliver Twist In Charles Dickens’ Oliver Twist, the depictions of corruption and virtue are prevalent throughout most of the novel and take the physical form in the city and the country. Oliver spends much of his time in London among criminals and the impoverished, and here is where Dickens takes the city of London and turns it into a dark and degraded place. Dickens’ London is inherently immoral and serves as a center for the corruption of mind and spirit which is demonstrated through the seedy scenes Dickens paints of London, the people who reside there, and by casting doubt in individuals who otherwise possess a decent moral compass. Furthermore, Dickens’ strict contrast of the country to these scenes further establishes the sinister presence of London. -
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Readex Report The Flash Press: New York’s Early 19th-Century “Sporting” Underworld as a Unique Source of Slang By Jonathon Green author of Green’s Dictionary of Slang Green’s Dictionary of Slang, launched in print in 2010 and available online since 2016, currently offers some 55,400 entries, in which are nested around 135,000 discrete words and phrases, underpinned by over 655,000 examples of use, known as citations. Thanks to the online environment, it has been possible to offer a regular quarterly update to the dictionary. “Quite simply the best historical dictionary of English slang there is, ever has been…or is ever likely to be.” — Journal of English Language and Linguistics During the summer of 2020, I focused primarily on American Underworld: The Flash Press, a newspaper collection of the American Antiquarian Society and digitized by Readex. Its 45 titles (ranging from a single edition to runs covering multiple years) provided more than two-thirds of additions and changes in last August’s update. In this article, a version of which appeared on my own blog, I write about the nature of the “flash press” and some of the slang terms that have been extracted from it. Here’s this morning’s New York Sewer! Here’s this morning’s New York Stabber! Here’s the New York Family Spy! Here’s the New York Private Listener! Here’s the New York Peeper! Here’s the New York Plunderer! Here’s the New York Keyhole Reporter! Here’s the New York Rowdy Journal — Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) An illustration from “The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit” by Charles Dickens Taking his first steps through 1840s New York City, the young hero of Dickens’ Martin Chuzzlewit pays a visit to the offices of the New York Rowdy Journal. -
London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic
London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic London, Radical Culture, and the Making of the Dickensian Aesthetic Sambudha Sen The Ohio State University Press / Columbus Copyright © 2012 by The Ohio State University. All rights reserved. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Sen, Sambudha. London, radical culture, and the making of the Dickensian aesthetic / Sambudha Sen. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8142-1192-2 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8142-9293-8 (cd) 1. English fiction—19th century—History and criticism. 2. Dickens, Charles, 1812– 1870—Criticism and interpretation. 3. Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811–1863— Criticism and interpretation. 4. Literature and society—Great Britain—History—19th century. 5. Radicalism—Great Britain—History—19th century. I. Title. PR861.S46 2012 823'.809—dc23 2012007257 Cover design by Greg Betza Text design by Juliet Williams Type set in Adobe Sabon Printed by Thomson-Shore, Inc. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. ANSI Z39.48–1992. 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgments ix INTRODUCTION 1 CHAPTER 1 Dickens, Thackeray, and “The Language of Radicalism” 13 CHAPTER 2 The Aesthetics and Politics of Caricature: Bleak House, Little Dorrit, and Vanity Fair in Relation to “Radical Expression” 36 CHAPTER 3 Re-Visioning the City: The Making of an Urban Aesthetic from Hogarth to the Stereoscope 65 CHAPTER 4 Novelizing the City: Bleak House, Vanity Fair, and the Hybridizing Challenge 94 CHAPTER 5 Radical Culture, the City, and the Problem of Selfhood: Great Expectations and Pendennis 116 CHAPTER 6 Working with Fragments: Our Mutual Friend as a Reflection on the Popular Aesthetic 141 Notes 163 Bibliography 177 Index 184 IllUSTRATIONS 1. -
THE PICKWICK PAPERS Required Reading for the Dickens Universe
THE PICKWICK PAPERS Required reading for the Dickens Universe, 2007: * Auden, W. H. "Dingley Dell and the Fleet." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1962. 407-28. * Marcus, Steven. "The Blest Dawn." Dickens: From Pickwick to Dombey. New York: Basic Books, 1965. 13-53. * Patten, Robert L. Introduction. The Pickwick Papers. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1972. 11-30. * Feltes, N. N. "The Moment of Pickwick, or the Production of a Commodity Text." Literature and History: A Journal for the Humanities 10 (1984): 203-217. Rpt. in Modes of Production of Victorian Novels. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986. * Chittick, Kathryn. "The qualifications of a novelist: Pickwick Papers and Oliver Twist." Dickens and the 1830s. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1990. 61-91. Recommended, but not required, reading: Marcus, Steven."Language into Structure: Pickwick Revisited," Daedalus 101 (1972): 183-202. Plus the sections on The Pickwick Papers in the following works: John Bowen. Other Dickens : Pickwick to Chuzzlewit. Oxford, U.K.; New York: Oxford UP, 2000. Grossman, Jonathan H. The Art of Alibi: English Law Courts and the Novel. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 2002. Woloch, Alex. The One vs. The Many: Minor Characters and the Space of the Protagonist in the Novel. Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003. 1 SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY Compiled by Hillary Trivett May, 1991 Updated by Jessica Staheli May, 2007 For a comprehensive bibliography of criticism before 1990, consult: Engel, Elliot. Pickwick Papers: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1990. CRITICISM Auden, W. H. "Dingley Dell and the Fleet." The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays. New York: Random House, 1962. -
Seman 1 Dickens Against the Grain Gendered Spheres and Their Transgressors in Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations A
Seman 1 Dickens against the Grain Gendered Spheres and Their Transgressors in Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations A Thesis Presented to the Honors Tutorial College Ohio University In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for Graduation from the Honors Tutorial College with the Degree of Bachelor of Arts in English by Taylor J. Seman June 2011 Seman 2 This thesis has been approved by The Honors Tutorial College and the Department of English __________________________ Dr. Carey Snyder Associate Professor, English Thesis Advisor and Director of Studies ___________________________ Dr. Jeremy Webster Dean, Honors Tutorial College Seman 3 Table of Contents Introduction…………………………………………………………………………….4 Chapter One: Transgressive Characters………………………………………………..9 Chapter Two: Idealized Characters…………………………………………………...28 Chapter Three: Female Power in Unusual Places…………………………………….45 Conclusion…………………………………………………………………………....56 Bibliography…………………………………………………………………………..58 Seman 4 Introduction Charles Dickens certainly cannot be considered a participant in a precursory movement towards feminism; in fact, many of Dickens‘s novels uphold traditional ideas about femininity and punish the usurpation of male privilege. In Bleak House, Hard Times, and Great Expectations—the three novels that form the basis of this study—Dickens punishes characters who transgress gender norms (such as Mrs. Jellyby, Louisa, and Mrs. Joe) both through explicit condemnation by the narrator and the adversity that befalls them in the plot. These characters have been created to appear ridiculous, no matter their accomplishments in the community or in the world at large. Yet in these same novels, Dickens presents a socially relevant depiction of female power and agency that subverts the sexism he exhibits in the creation and punishment of other characters. -
Pregnant Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel
College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU English Faculty Publications English Spring 2000 Near Confinement: Pregnant Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Cynthia N. Malone College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/english_pubs Part of the Literature in English, British Isles Commons Recommended Citation Cynthia Northcutt Malone. "Near Confinement: Pregnant Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel." Dickens Studies Annual 29 (Spring 2000) This Article is brought to you for free and open access by DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. It has been accepted for inclusion in English Faculty Publications by an authorized administrator of DigitalCommons@CSB/SJU. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Near Confinement: Pregnant Women in the Nineteenth-Century British Novel Cynthia Northcutt Malone While eighteenth-century British novels are peppered with women ''big with child"-Moll Flanders, Molly Seagrim, Mrs. Pickle-nineteenth century novels typically veil their pregnant characters. Even in nine teenth-century advice books by medical men, circumlocution and euphe mism obscure discussions of pregnancy. This essay explores the changing cultural significance of the female body from the mid-eigh teenth century to the early Victorian period, giving particular attention to the grotesque figure of Mrs. Gamp in Martin Chuzzlewit. Through ostentatious circumlocution and through the hilariously grotesque dou bleness of Mrs. Gamp, Dickens both observes and ridicules the Victo rian middle-class decorum enveloping pregnancy in silence. And now one of the new fashions of our very elegant society is to go in perfectly light-coloured dresses-quite tight -witl1out a particle of shawl or scarf .. -
Great Expectations on Screen
UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS DEPARTAMENTO DE HISTORIA Y TEORÍA DEL ARTE TESIS DOCTORAL GREAT EXPECTATIONS ON SCREEN A Critical Study of Film Adaptation Violeta Martínez-Alcañiz Directoras de la Tesis Doctoral: Prof. Dra. Valeria Camporesi y Prof. Dra. Julia Salmerón Madrid, 2018 UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE MADRID FACULTAD DE FILOSOFÍA Y LETRAS DEPARTAMENTO DE HISTORIA Y TEORÍA DEL ARTE TESIS DOCTORAL GREAT EXPECTATIONS ON SCREEN A Critical Study of Film Adaptation Tesis presentada por Violeta Martínez-Alcañiz Licenciada en Periodismo y en Comunicación Audiovisual para la obtención del grado de Doctor Directoras de la Tesis Doctoral: Prof. Dra. Valeria Camporesi y Prof. Dra. Julia Salmerón Madrid, 2018 “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair” (Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities) “Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?” (Sergei Eisenstein, “A dialectic approach to film form”) “An honest adaptation is a betrayal” (Carlo Rim) Table of contents ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 13 CHAPTER 1. INTRODUCTION 15 CHAPTER 2. LITERATURE REVIEW 21 Early expressions: between hostility and passion 22 Towards a theory on film adaptation 24 Story and discourse: semiotics and structuralism 25 New perspectives 30 CHAPTER 3. -
FLORENCE AS CHRIST-FIGURE in DOMBEY and SON Sarah Flenniken John Carroll University, [email protected]
John Carroll University Carroll Collected Masters Essays Theses, Essays, and Senior Honors Projects Spring 2017 TOUCHED BY LOVE: FLORENCE AS CHRIST-FIGURE IN DOMBEY AND SON Sarah Flenniken John Carroll University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: http://collected.jcu.edu/mastersessays Part of the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Flenniken, Sarah, "TOUCHED BY LOVE: FLORENCE AS CHRIST-FIGURE IN DOMBEY AND SON" (2017). Masters Essays. 61. http://collected.jcu.edu/mastersessays/61 This Essay is brought to you for free and open access by the Theses, Essays, and Senior Honors Projects at Carroll Collected. It has been accepted for inclusion in Masters Essays by an authorized administrator of Carroll Collected. For more information, please contact [email protected]. TOUCHED BY LOVE: FLORENCE AS CHRIST-FIGURE IN DOMBEY AND SON An Essay Submitted to the Office of Graduate Studies College of Arts & Sciences of John Carroll University in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts By Sarah Flenniken 2017 The essay of Sarah Flenniken is hereby accepted: ______________________________________________ __________________ Advisor- Dr. John McBratney Date I certify that this is the original document ______________________________________________ __________________ Author- Sarah E. Flenniken Date A recent movement in Victorian literary criticism involves a fascination with tactile imagery. Heather Tilley wrote an introduction to an essay collection that purports to “deepen our understanding of the interconnections Victorians made between mind, body, and self, and the ways in which each came into being through tactile modes” (5). According to Tilley, “who touched whom, and how, counted in nineteenth-century society” and literature; in the collection she introduces, “contributors variously consider the ways in which an increasingly delineated touch sense enabled the articulation and differing experience of individual subjectivity” across a wide range of novels and even disciplines (1, 7). -
The Write Stuff: Memos and Short Reports. an Offering of Step Ahead: a Partnership for Improved Health Care Communication
DOCUMENT RESUME ED 343 026 CE 060 686 AUTHOR Bernhardt, Steve; Laroche, Pierre TITLE The Write Stuff: Memos and Short Reports. An Offering of Step Ahead: A Partnership for Improved Health Care Communication. INSTITUTION New Mexico State Univ., Las Cruces. SPOONS AGENCY Office of Vocational and Adult Education (ED). Washington, DC. PUB DATE 91 CONTRACT V198A00163 NOTE 88p.; For related documents, see CE 060 682-685. PUB TYPE Guides - Classroom Use - Instructional Materials (For Learner) (051) EDRS PRICE MF01/PC04 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Adult Basic Educaon; Adult Literacy; *Allied Health Occupations; Basic Skills; *Communication Skills; *Hospital Personnel; Hospitals; Illiteracy; Literacy Education; *Reports; Staff Development; *Technical Writing; *Writing Skills; Writing Strategies IDENTIFIERS *Workplace Literacy ABSTRACT This coursebook provides materials for a course to improve the writing skills of workers in health care settings. The course is designed to be presented in eight sessions over a 4-week period. Stated objectives for the participant are as follows: feel more comfortable with on-the-job writing, understand and use a process approach to writing, be able to choose from several outlining and planning methods, choose effective language for both reporting and persuasive writing, and revise memos and reports with a clear purpose and an intended audience in mind. Introductory materials include course goals, outline, and four suggested writing assignments. The first section covers the communication triangle, purpose, and audience. The second section addresses these topics: the writing process, writing behaviors/styles, planning strategies, drafting strategies, and revising and editing. Worksheets are provided in the first two sections for some topics. Two tip sheets discuss reviewing someone else's writing and strategies for quick writing. -
Selected Bibliography on Our Mutual Friend for the 2014 Dickens Universe August 3-9 UC Santa Cruz
Selected Bibliography on Our Mutual Friend for the 2014 Dickens Universe August 3-9 UC Santa Cruz (*starred items are strongly recommended) Reference Works Cotsell, Michael. 1986. The Companion to Our Mutual Friend. Boston: Allen & Unwin; rpt. New York: Routledge, 2009. Brattin, Joel J., and Bert. G. Hornback, eds. 1984. Our Mutual Friend: An Annotated Bibliography. New York: Garland. Heaman, Robert J. 2003. “Our Mutual Friend: An Annotated Bibliography: Supplement I, 1984-2000.” Dickens Studies Annual 33: 425-514. Selected articles and chapters Allen, Michelle Elizabeth. 2008. “A More Expansive Reach: The Geography of the Thames in Our Mutual Friend.” In Cleansing the City: Sanitary Geographies in Victorian London, ch. 2. Athens: Ohio University Press. Alter, Robert. 1996. “Reading Style in Dickens.” Philosophy and Literature 20, no. 1: 130-7. Arac, Jonathan. 1979. “The Novelty of Our Mutual Friend.” In Commissioned Spirits: The Shaping of Social Motion in Dickens, Carlyle, Melville, and Hawthorne, 164-185. New York: Columbia University Press. Baumgarten, Murray. 2000. “The Imperial Child: Bella, Our Mutual Friend, and the Victorian Picturesque.” In Dickens and the Children of Empire, edited by Wendy S. Jacobson, 54-66. New York: Palgrave. Baumgarten, Murray. 2002. “Boffin, Our Mutual Friend, and the Theatre of Fiction.” Dickens Quarterly 19: 17-22. Bodenheimer, Rosemarie. 2002. “Dickens and the Identical Man: Our Mutual Friend Doubled.” Dickens Studies Annual 31: 159-174. Boehm, Katharina. 2013. “Monstrous Births and Saltationism in Our Mutual Friend and Popular Anatomical Museums.” In Charles Dickens and the Sciences of Childhood: Popular Medicine, Child Health and Victorian Culture, ch. 5. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.