The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens

by Peter Cook

Book Overview

This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens's debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens's novels, Peter...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3319967908
• ISBN13: 9783319967905
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"