Other Dickens: Pickwick to Chuzzlewit

by John Bowen and John Bowen

Book Overview

In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199261407
• ISBN13: 9780199261406
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.4" x 8.4"