How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel

This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. It helps students to identify a novel's major thematic concerns and interests and to argue a case purely from the evidence of the text. But it also moves beyond a straighforwardly thematic analysis to consider how a novel is put together and how it works. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.

Autorentext
KEITH SELBY taught in higher education for seven years.

Inhalt

General Editor's Preface.- Acknowledgements.- PART 1: INTRODUCTION: READING A DICKENS NOVEL.- PART 2: HARD TIMES.- PART 3: GREAT EXPECTATIONS.- PART 4: BLEAK HOUSE.- PART 5: MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT.- PART 6: DOMBEY AND SON.- PART 7: WRITING AN ESSAY.- Further Reading.