Tag: Dickens

CliffsNotes on Dickens’ A Tale of Two Cities


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English | 2000 | pages: 128 | ISBN: 0764586068 | EPUB | 0,5 mb
The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, Descriptions, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.

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The Lawyer in Dickens (Law & Literature)


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English | ISBN: 3110752700 | 2021 | 170 pages | PDF | 606 KB
The Lawyer in Dickens takes a closer look at the construction of his types of lawyers. While Dickens’s critique of the legal system and its representatives is almost proverbial, a closer look at his lawyers uncovers a complex and ambiguous construction that questions their status as Victorian gentlemen. These characters offer a complex psychology that often surpasses their minor or stereotypical role within various Dickens novels, for they act not only as alter egos for different protagonists, but also exhibit behaviour that reveals their abusive attitude towards women.

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The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe


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English | 2013 | pages: 760 | ISBN: 184706096X | EPUB | 1,0 mb
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens’s reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens’s fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens’s fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens’s reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.

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