The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

by Beryl Gray

Book Overview

Fascinated by them, unable to ignore them, and imaginatively stimulated by them, Charles Dickens was an acute and unsentimental reporter on the dogs he kept and encountered during a time when they were a burgeoning part of the nineteenth-century urban and domestic scene. As dogs inhabited Dickens's city, so too did they populate his fiction, journalism, and letters. In the first book-length work of criticism on Dickens's relationship to canines, Beryl...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367880180
• ISBN13: 9780367880187
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 274 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"