Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels by Miller, J. Hillis
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- ISBN
- 9780674110007
- Publication Year
- 1958
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Charles Dickens : the World of His Novels
- Item Height
- 1.1in
- Item Length
- 8.5in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Width
- 5.9in
- Item Weight
- 21.2 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 366 Pages
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George Orwell once said of Dickens work: It is not so much a series of books, it is more like a world. In this book, J. Hillis Miller attempts to identify this world, to show how a single view of life pervades every novel that Dickens wrote, and to trace the development of this view throughout the chronological span of Dickens career. There are full critical analyses of six of the novels "Pickwick Papers," "Oliver Twist," "Martin Chuzzlewit," "Bleak House," "Great Expectations," and "Our Mutual Friend" and shorter discussions of many of the others. Each novel has been viewed as the transformation of the real world of Dickens experience into an imaginary world with certain special qualities of its own.Certain elements persist through all the novels, the most important of which are the general situation of the hero at the beginning of the story and the general nature of the world in which he lives. Each of Dickens heroes begins his life cut off from other people, in a world which seems menacing and unfriendly and, on the social side, composed of inexplicable rituals and mysterious conventions; each lives, like Paul Dombey, with an aching void in his young heart, and all outside so cold, and bare, and strange. The heroes then move through successive adventures in an attempt to understand the world, to integrate themselves into it, and thus to find their true identity. Initially creatures of poverty and indigence, those characters reach out for something which transcends the material world and the self, something other than human, which will support and maintain the self without engulfing it. Within the totality of Dickens' novels this problem the search for selfhood is stated and restated, until, in the later novels, the answer is found to line in a rejections of the past, the given, and the exterior, and a reorientation toward the future and the free human spirit itself as the only true sources of value.With a real understating and sympathy for his subject, Miller manages to transport us into the midst of Dickens world and to bring alive for us the whole strange and wonderful tribe that people his novels. This is an enlightening, well-written, enjoyable book for anyone who has ever had an interest in Dickens and his work."
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674110005
ISBN-13
9780674110007
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1238003
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Charles Dickens : the World of His Novels
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
1958
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
366 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8.5in
Item Height
1.1in
Item Width
5.9in
Item Weight
21.2 Oz
Additional Product Features
Copyright Date
1958
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Topic
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Lccn
58-010402
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Literary Criticism
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