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Domesticity

Waters, Catherine (2011) Domesticity. In: Ledger, Sally and Furneaux, Holly, eds. Dickens in Context. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, pp. 350-357. ISBN 9780523887007. (The full text of this publication is not currently available from this repository. You may be able to access a copy if URLs are provided) (KAR id:54899)

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Abstract

Charles Dickens, a man so representative of his age as to have become considered synonymous with it, demands to be read in context. This book illuminates the worlds - social, political, economic and artistic - in which Dickens worked. Dickens's professional life encompassed work as a novelist, journalist, editor, public reader and passionate advocate of social reform. This volume offers a detailed treatment of Dickens in each of these roles, exploring the central features of Dickens's age, work and legacy, and uncovering sometimes surprising faces of the man and of the range of Dickens industries. Through 45 digestible short chapters written by a leading expert on each topic, a rounded picture emerges of Dickens's engagement with his time, the influence of his works and the ways he has been read, adapted and re-imagined from the nineteenth century to the present.

- Aimed at students and researchers of Dickens and the Victorian period, with digestible, yet detailed and self-contained chapters

- Combines scholarly authority with innovative new approaches

- Provides a starting point for investigating any Dickens-related topic, with suggestions on how to develop the research

Item Type: Book section
Subjects: P Language and Literature > PR English literature
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Arts and Humanities > School of English
Depositing User: Catherine Waters
Date Deposited: 12 Apr 2016 13:34 UTC
Last Modified: 16 Nov 2021 10:22 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/54899 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)

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