Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens (Intelligent Person's Guides)
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Book Description
Dickens is one of the greatest literary icons of British culture, a virtually inexhaustible source for the entertainment industry and media. Michael Slater has spent half a century reading and writing about him-above all enjoying him. In this book he provides a personal insight into the truth of a famous tribute paid to Dickens by a helper on his triumphal Public Reading tours: ‘The more you want out of the Master, the more you'll find in him.'
Offering an authoritative guide to the often misrepresented ‘Dickensian values', Michael Slater ranges widely over the fiction, journalism, letters and speeches. He explores the leading ideas and beliefs, the artistic ideals and ambitions, that inspired and shaped Dickens's prodigious output. Dickens felt strongly that he was on a literary crusade against utilitarian thinking and social injustice. His thoughts are as relevant today as when he first wrote them down.
About the Author
Michael Slater has written extensively on Dickens and currently edits the four-volume Uniform Edition of Dickens's Journalism. He is Professor of Victorian Literature at Birkbeck College, London, a former editor of The Dickensian and a past President of the International Dickens Fellowship.
Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens (Intelligent Person's Guides),Michael Slater,Duckworth Publishing,0715628720,Drama,General,Literary Criticism,Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Literature - Classics / Criticism,Literature: Classics,Reference,1812-1870,Criticism and interpretation,Dickens, Charles,,English,English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh,Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century
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