The Melancholy Man by John Lucas
First published in 1980, this book surveys Dickens’ growing power to drive deep into the causes of his contemporary conditions. It reveals the importance of nature to Dickens as a rich metaphor of human freedom and potentiality, and emphasises his concern with time and the problems of freedom. The author considers the peculiarity of Dickens being unanimously acclaimed as a great writer considering the difficulty in placing him definitively within the literary tradition. The author argues Dickens was an isolated figure, indifferent to changing fashions and with a strong sense of the dignity of human nature and that this formed the basis of his character and writings.
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The Early and Mid-Victorian Novel
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Tradition and Tolerance in Nineteenth Century Fiction
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Elizabeth Gaskell
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The Literature of Change
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Partings Welded Together
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George Eliot and Schiller
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The Victorian Novelist
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Evolution, Sacrifice, and Narrative
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Walter Scott
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Eve Tempted
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A Theory of the Classical Novel
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Hardy of Wessex
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Women's Diaries as Narrative in the Nineteenth-Century Novel
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The Fallen Woman in the Nineteenth-Century English Novel
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Dickens in America
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Courtship and the English Novel
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Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel
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Terrorism in the Late Victorian Novel
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Religious Feeling and Religious Commitment in Faulkner, Dostoyevsky, Werfel and Bernanos
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Picturing
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Walter Scott and the Historical Imagination
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The Paradox of Gissing
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Disraeli the Novelist
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Meredith Now
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Class in Turn-of-the-Century Novels of Gissing, James, Hardy and Wells
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Dickens and Popular Entertainment
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Women Musicians in Victorian Fiction, 1860-1900
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Reflecting on Nana
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George Gissing
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Hardy in History
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The Savage in Literature
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Editing Nineteenth-Century Fiction
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Zola
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Anthony Trollope
John Lucas is an East of England-based investigative journalist. He was the chief crime correspondent for the region's major daily, _The Echo_, and his work now appears in national publications on a regular basis.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781138675605 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138675601 |
| Title | The Melancholy Man |
| Author | John Lucas |
| Series | Routledge Library Editions: The Nineteenth-Century Novel |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2017-12-12 |
| Number of pages | 396 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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