Knowing Dickens

by Rosemarie Bodenheimer

Book Overview

In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection--notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801446147
• ISBN13: 9780801446146
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.11 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher