Charles Dickens and the Properties of Fiction: The Lodger World

by Ushashi Dasgupta

When Dickens was nineteen years old, he wrote a poem for Maria Beadnell, the young woman he wished to marry. The poem imagined Maria as a welcoming landlady offering lodgings to let. Almost forty years later, Dickens died, leaving his final novel unfinished - in its last scene, another landlady, Mrs Tope, sets breakfast down for her enigmatic lodger. These kinds of characters are everywhere in Dickens's writing. Charles Dickens and the Properties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198859112
• ISBN13: 9780198859116
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.3"