Dickens and Popular Entertainment - Hardcover

Schlicke, Paul

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0048000388 ISBN 13: 9780048000385

Publisher: Unwin Hyman, 1985

Synopsis

Book by Schlicke, Paul

About this title

About the Author:

Paul Schlicke, lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, brings a lifetime's love of Dickens and many years of research to this book. Its importance will be evident not only to students of literature but to anyone interested in the dynamic social transformation of nineteenth-century England and in the history of popular culture.

Review:

'With its copious details and impeccable documentation, its many quotations from the novelist's speeches and less well-known writings, as well as for the author's fresh and penetrating insights into aspects of Dicken's art, this is a valuable book for the social historian and for the Dicken's enthusiast.' - Mary McGowan, Dickensian 'An important book for Dickensians and cultural historians it is both efficient and persuasive.' - R L Patten, Victorian Studies 'The topic is one of the liveliest in the whole repertory of Dickens studies, and while the other writers have nibbled around its edges, Schlicke is the first to take it on in its entirity.' - R D Altick, Nineteenth-Century Literature 'Dickens and Popular Entertainment is a sound and informative contribution to Dickens scholarship, made more attractive by its twenty-five black-and-white illustrations The book is well produced and was well worth producing.' - Peter Faulkner, Notes and Queries

About this edition

• Publisher: Unwin Hyman
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 0048000388
• ISBN 13: 9780048000385
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288