Title: Dickens and crime
First published: 1962
Description: This study draws on unfamiliar material in Dickens' periodicals, travel-books, and letters, and the memoirs of his friends, as well as on the novels, shows how his "shaping spirit of imagination" worked upon the "originals" of Inspector Bucket, Alderman Cute, the magistrate and model prisoners in 'David Copperfield,' and many other characters and episodes. Prisons and murder are the main topics; other include the police, the courts, and hanging.
Subjects: Crime in literature, History, Literature and society, Criminals in literature, Political and social views, Criminals, Characters, Dickens, charles, 1812-1870
Places: England
People: Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
Time periods: 20th century, 19th century