Dickens The Novelist / / / F. R. Leavis.

In The Great Tradition, published in 1948, F. R. Leavis seemed to rate the work of Charles Dickens - with the exception of Hard Times - as lacking the seriousness and formal control of the true masters of English fiction. By 1970, when Dickens the Novelist was published on the first centenary of the...

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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : : Rutgers University Press, , [1979]
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Year of Publication:1979
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (392 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface and Note
  • CHAPTER I The First Major Novel: Dombey and Son-
  • Appendix: Dickens and Smollett
  • CHAPTER II Dickens and Tolstoy: The Case for a Serious View of David Copperfield
  • Appendix A: Dora 'from a woman's point of view'
  • Appendix B : Oliver Twist, Jane Eyre and David Copperfield
  • Appendix C: Dickens's Exposure Scenes
  • CHAPTER III Bleak House : A Chancery World
  • Appendix A: The Symbolic Function of the Doctor in Victorian Novels
  • Appendix B: Mayhew and Dickens
  • CHAPTER IV Hard Times: The World of Bentham
  • CHAPTER V Dickens and Blake: Little Dorrit
  • CHAPTER VI How we must read Great Expectations
  • CHAPTER VII The Dickens Illustrations: Their Function