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The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens contains fourteen specially-commissioned chapters by leading international scholars, who together provide diverse but complementary approaches to the full span of Dickens's work, with particular focus on his major fiction. The essays cover the whole range of Dickens's writing, from Sketches by Boz through The Mystery of Edwin Drood. Separate chapters address important thematic topics: childhood, the city, and domestic ideology. Others consider formal features of the novels, including their serial publication and Dickens's distinctive use of language. Three final chapters examine Dickens in relation to work in other media: illustration, theatre, and film. Each essay provides guidance to further reading. The volume as a whole offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers, as well as fresh insights, informed by recent critical theory, that will be of interest to scholars and teachers of the novels.
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Indispensible!, 25 July 2008
By Mrs. Peel "Literature Lover" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
Whether you read Dickens for your own enjoyment or for academic pursuits, you will find this book invaluable. What I like most about this "Companion" is that its fourteen chapters provide new, brilliant, and thought-provoking "lenses" through which to view his novels as I re-read them, as I have done countless times in the last half-century. My favorite Dickens' novels are "Our Mutual Friend" and "Great Expectations," so I eagerly chose Chapter 6, Brian Cheadle's "The late novels: "Great Expectations" and "Our Mutual Friend" to read first. What delight! Cheadle's essay alone is worth the price of this book. This "Companion" does not disappoint.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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A mixed bag, 14 Dec 2008
By Christopher Grant - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
I've read all of Dickens' novels and take a back seat to no one in my appreciation of them, but I found this Cambridge Companion less than completely satisfying. Several of the authors did a very good job of covering their assigned topics, but several others narrowed their focus too much and seemed to be straining too hard to say something original (e.g., uncovering obscure parallels between this Dickens novel and that Shakespearean play). In academia, being original is highly prized, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised that this collection of essays turned out the way it did.
With roughly ten thousand pages available to draw upon, it seems like there's plenty to be said about Dickens' novels--commentary that would enrich the Dickens reader's experience--without becoming overly cute.
I don't mean to be unreasonably harsh. This book deserves all four stars I gave it. Still, I was hoping for something a little bit different.
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Good guide to what's new with Dickens, 8 Oct 2003
By DAVID - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens (Cambridge Companions to Literature) (Paperback)
This provides some interesting critical essays of recent scholarship on Dickens work. A must have for any student of Dickens.
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