Dickens's Style
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Dickens's Style

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Dickens's Style

About this book

Charles Dickens, generally regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian age, was known as 'The Inimitable', not least for his distinctive style of writing. This collection of twelve essays addresses the essential but often overlooked subject of Dickens's style, with each essay discussing a particular feature of his writing. All the essays consider Dickens's style conceptually, and they read it closely, demonstrating the ways it works on particular occasions. They show that style is not simply an aesthetic quality isolated from the deepest meanings of Dickens's fiction, but that it is inextricably involved with all kinds of historical, political and ideological concerns. Written in a lively and accessible manner by leading Dickens scholars, the collection ranges across all Dickens's writing, including the novels, journalism and letters.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Dickens’s Style
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Contents
  7. Contributors
  8. Acknowledgements
  9. Editions and abbreviations
  10. Introduction
  11. Chapter One Dickens’s umbrellas
  12. Chapter Two Dickens by the clock
  13. Chapter Three Dickens’s rhythms
  14. Chapter Four Spectres of style
  15. Chapter Five Dickens and the form of the historical present
  16. Chapter Six ‘Gigantic domesticity’: the exaggeration of Charles Dickens
  17. Chapter Seven Style and the making of character in Dickens
  18. Chapter Eight Snarling Charles: a Saxon style of restraint
  19. Chapter Nine Compound interest: Dickens’s figurative style
  20. Chapter Ten Reading the book of himself: The Uncommercial Traveller and ‘Dickensian’ style
  21. Chapter Eleven Lived death: Dickens’s rogue glyphs
  22. Chapter Twelve Dispensing with style
  23. Select bibliography
  24. Index
  25. Series