Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City

by Jeremy Tambling

Book Overview

Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens' novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens' novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens' writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 113880827X
• ISBN13: 9781138808270
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"