An Intelligent Person's Guide to Dickens (Intelligent Person's Guides)
Publisher: Duckworth Publishers
Published: August 3, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9780715628720
Subjects: Novels, other prose & writers: 19th century; Reference; Literary Criticism & Collections / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Literature: Classics; Drama; General; 1812-1870; Criticism and interpretation; Dickens, Charles,; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Literary Criticism; Literary Criticism / Drama
First sentence: By Dickens's day, no doubt partly as a result of Coleridge's famous distinction between the two words in chapter 13 of his Biographia Literaria(1817), the word 'fancy' had ceased to be virtually synonymous with 'imagination' and was generally used to denote an inferior form of that faculty.
Description: A guide to 'Dickensian values, ' exploring the ideas, beliefs, ideals and ambitions that helped to shape Dickens' writing.