Dickens Redressed: The Art of Bleak House and Hard Times

by Alexander Welsh

Book Overview

With Bleak House and Hard Times, Charles Dickens inaugurated a series of novels now known as "later Dickens"--works with a darker mood and more strident satire than his earlier fiction. Though these two novels continue to be immensely popular, they are only partly understood, Alexander Welsh contends. In this sequel to his critically acclaimed From Copyright to Copperfield, Welsh closely examines the two novels Dickens wrote after...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300082037
• ISBN13: 9780300082036
• Release Date: July 2000
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.7" x 8.6"