textual life of Dickens's characters
By: James A. Davies
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Savage, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 187
Subjects: Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Characters; Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Technique; Characters and characteristics in literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-182)
Table of contents: value: Introduction. Some sketches by Boz. Introduction: the 'Janus-faced critic'. Sketches by Boz: 'laboratory conditions'; value: Modifying summaries. The fat boy in The Pickwick Papers; value: Young Bailey in Martin Chuzzlewit; value: Gaffer Hexam in Our Mutual Friend; value: Narrators. Some epistolary personae; value: The troubled traveller in Pictures from Italy; value: The sentimental paternalist in A Christmas Carol; value: Extending the interface: the third narrator in Bleak House - - The middle-aged businessman: the narrator of Great Expectations; value: Sexism and class bias: the narrator of Our Mutual Friend; value: Two re-readers. Knowing what happens in Our Mutual Friend; value: Droodiana and The Mystery of Edwin Drood; value: Characterisation and ideas in Little Dorrit: Clennam and Calvinism; value: Characterisation and structure: John Harmon in Our Mutual Friend; value: Story and text