01557cam a22002174a 4500 110211s2011 enka b 001 0 eng 9780521887007 0521887003 SDU PR4588 C475 2011 Charles Dickens in context / edited by Sally Ledger and Holly Furneaux. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011. 405 p. : ill. HKBU Library "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"-- Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 Criticism and interpretation. 206381 Ledger, Sally. 206382 Furneaux, Holly. 206383 = C.1 SDU GBE lcc 107809 107809 0 0 lcc 0 PR4588 C475 02011 0 CGB 279258 SDU SDU GEN3 2025-08-26 2 0 PR4588 C475 2011 1000373163 2025-08-26 00:00:00 C.1 2025-08-26 GBE