Charles Dickens
By: edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Series: Bloom's classic critical views
Publisher: Bloom's Literary Criticism
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9781438112633
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "Few writers have captured the essence of 19th-century London the way Charles Dickens has. A master of extreme situations, Dickens is known for his colorful and often seedy characters and the elaborate settings of his works. This volume from the new Bloom's "Classic Critical Views" series features a remarkable collection of critical essays from the 19th and early 20th centuries that paint a clear historical portrait of this legendary writer."--Publisher website (November 2008).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record
Table of contents: title: Introduction / Harold Bloom; title: Biography; title: Personal; title: Thomas Carlyle (1840); title: Philip Hone (1842); title: Richard Henry Dana (1842); title: Frances Ann Kemble (1842); title: Nathaniel Hawthorne (1853); title: Hans Christian Andersen (1857); title: John Forster (1872-74); title: Mamie Dickens and Georgina Hogarth (1882); title: Percy Fitzgerald "Charles Dickens as an editor" (1882); title: Thomas Adolphus Trollope (1888); title: General; title: William Cullen Bryant (1842); title: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1843); title: Edwin P. Whipple "Novels and novelists: Charles Dickens" (1844); title: Leigh Hunt "To Charles Dickens" (1849); title: Mary Russell Mitford (1853); title: George Eliot (1856); title: Ralph Waldo Emerson "Literature" (1856); title: John Ruskin (1856); title: Peter Bayne "The modern novel: Dickens; title: Bulwer; title: Thackeray" (1857); title: Walter Bagehot "Charles Dickesn" (1858); title: David Masson (1859); title: Walter Savage Landor "Dickens" (1863); title: Alexander Smith "On vagabonds" (1863); title: Henry James (1865); title: Charles Eliot Norton "Charles Dickens" (1868); title: F.B. Perkins (1870); title: George Henry Lewes "Dickens in relation to criticism" (1872); title: Edward FitzGerald (1874); title: Harriet Martineau (1877); title: Justin McCarthy (1879-80); title: Algernon Charles Swinburne "Dickens" (1882); title: Adolphus William Ward (1882); title: Anthony Trollope (1883); title: Edwin P. Whipple "In Dickens-land" (1887); title: Robert Louis Stevenson (1888); title: W.E. Henley "Dickens" (1890); title: William Dean Howells (1891); title: W.H. Mallock "Are Scott, Dickens, and Thackeray obsolete?" (1892); title: Frederic Harrison "Charles Dickens" (1895); title: William Samuel Lilly "Dickens" (1895); title: David Christie Murray (1897); title: Herbert Paul "The apotheosis of the novel" (1897); title: George Gissing "Humour and pathos" (1898); title: Laurence Hutton "Charles Dickens" (1898); title: Wilbur L. Cross (1899); title: Richard Burton "The fundamentals of fiction" (1902); title: Algernon Charles Swinburne "Charles Dickesn" (1902); title: Alice Meynell (1903); title: G.K. Chesterton "On the alleged optimism of Dickens" (1906); title: George Santayana (1921); title: Works; title: The Pickwick papers; title: John Wilson Croker "The Pickwick papers" (1837); title: Richard Grant White "The styles of Dickens and Disraeli" (1870); title: S.C. Hall (1883); title: Margaret Oliphant (1892); title: Barnaby Rudge; title: Edgar Allan Poe "Charles Dickens" (1841); title: The old curiosity shop; title: Thomas de Quincey (1847); title: Sara Coleridge (1849); title: Bret Harte "Dickens in camp" (1870); title: George Gissing "Dickens in memory" (1902); title: American notes; title: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1842); title: Thomas Babington Macaulay (1842); title: James Spedding "Dickens's American notes" (1843); title: Lord Jeffrey Francis (1852); title: A Christmas carol; title: William Makepeace Thackeray "A box of novels" (1844); title: Julia C.R. Dorr "Christmas and its literature" (1868); title: Martin Chuzzlewit; title: Philip Hone (1843); title: Sara Coleridge (1874); title: William Dean Howells "Dickens" (1895); title: David Copperfield; title: Charlotte Brontë (1849); title: Charles Dickens (1850); title: William Makepeace Thackeray "Mr. Brown the elder takes Mr. Brown the younger to a club" (1850); title: Hans Christian Andersen "A visit to Charles Dickens" (1870); title: Mowbray Morris "Charles Dickens" (1882); title: James Russell Lowell (1887); title: G.K. Chesterton "David Copperfield" (1911); title: Great expectations; title: E.S. Dallas (1861); title: Margaret Oliphant (1862); title: G.K. Chesterton "Great expectations" (1911); title: A tale of two cities; title: Sir James Fitzjames Stephen (1859); title: G.K. Chesterton "A tale of two cities" (1911); title: Oliver Twist; title: Queen Victoria (1839); title: William Makepeace Thackeray (1840); title: G.K. Chesterton "Oliver Twist" (1911); title: Hard times; title: John Ruskin (1860); title: George Bernard Shaw (1912).