The reader in the Dickens world
Subtitle: style and response
By: Susan R. Horton.
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 1981
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 136
ISBN-13: 9780822911401
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation.; Reader-response criticism -- England.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Note on the texts; title: Introduction; title: Intention, text and response; title: Sequence and consequence : from truckling knave to trickling blood; title: The reader at work. The rhetorics of image and idea; title: Rhetoric and plot; title: The reticent rhetorician; title: The rhetoric of "seems"; title: The world beyond the Dickens world. Dickens's peripheral vision; title: The huddle; title: The double vision; title: The time telescope and the labyrinth of the conditional : the expanding world in time and possibility; title: The dynamics of description. Description as re-creation; title: Description as defence; title: Descriptions and repetitions; title: One reader reading : the reader in The Old Curiosity Shop