Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies by R Patten

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies by R Patten

Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies is a comprehensive and authoritative guide to the study of one of the most important Victorian novelists. Its editors, Robert L. Patten and John Bowen, are leading authorities on Dickens and the international team of contributors they have assembled contains some of the most exciting critics of nineteenth-century fiction writing today. The book covers the whole range of Dickens's writing and criticism about it, including biographical, theoretical and historical approaches. It is based on up-to-the-minute research and written in a lively and engaging way, and will be essential reading for all students and scholars of this canonical writer.

'Bob Patten and John Bowen's collection is a state-of-the art guide to Dickens studiesThe editors have assembled a distinguished team of contributors, who clearly and succinctly set forth illuminating perspectives on crucial issues of modern scholarship. Wide-ranging, detailed, and remarkably coherent, it is the best single volume of essays since George Ford and Lauriat Lane's classic The Dickens Critics first appeared nearly half a century ago, and a must for every serious student of Dickens.' - Paul Schlicke, President of the International Dickens Fellowship and Senior Lecturer in English, University of Aberdeen, UK

'[A] volume of signal importance...a model of its kind' - Nicola Bradbury, The Dickensian

MALCOLM ANDREWS University of Kent, UK ROSEMARIE BODENHEIMER Boston College, USA JOSEPH CHILDERS University of California, Riverside, USA CAROLYN DEVER Vanderbilt University, USA HELENA MICHIE Rice University, USA CATHERINE ROBSON University of California, Davis, USA HILARY M. SCHOR University of Southern California, USA JOHN SUTHERLAND University College London, UK DAVID VINCENT Open University, UK and visiting fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford, UK CATHERINE WATERS University of New England, Australia IAN WILKINSON Keele University, UK

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ISBN 13	9781403912862
ISBN 10	1403912866
Title	Palgrave Advances in Charles Dickens Studies
Author	R Patten
Series	Palgrave Advances
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Palgrave USA
Year published	2005-11-11
Number of pages	334
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