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The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens

The Oxford Reader's Companion to Dickens

by PaulSchlicke (Editor)

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    Hardcover 1999

    $4.71

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    Paperback 2000

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Synopsis

A compendium of information about Dickens: his life, his works, his reputation and his cultural context. In addition to entries on his works, his characters, his friends and places mentioned in his works, it includes extensive information about the age in which he lived and worked: the people, events, and institutions which provided the context for his work; the houses he lived in, the countries he visited, the ideas he satirized, the circumstances he responded to, the culture he participated in. The text provides a synthesis of Dickens studies and contains a range of information on Dickens.

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Format: Hardcover
 Pages: 677
 Edition: First Edition
 Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 01 Jun 1999
ISBN 10: 0198662130
ISBN 13: 9780198662136

Media Reviews
Here is the world of Dickens in brief but readily identifiable form.... It will prove invaluable to scholars, readers, and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond. --Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)
Paul Schlicke has masterminded a magnificent new Reader's Companion.... It will be a necessary possession for all Dickensians, both specialists and general readers, and very desirable for anyone interested in 19th-century literature and culture.... It collects and preserves more useful information
than any single previous volume about Dickens's work and life. --Adrian Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement
Scrupulous, encyclopedic, and useful. In short, everything a straight Oxford Companion to Dickens should be. --Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
It's the mark of this exemplary volume's marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian, and the sweep of its coverage from 'Abridgements' to 'Women's Issues, ' that you feel emboldened by the knowledge it imparts to argue almost any point of view. --Robert McCrum, The Observer


Here is the world of Dickens in brief but readily identifiable form.... It will prove invaluable to scholars, readers, and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond. --Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)
Paul Schlicke has masterminded a magnificent new Reader's Companion.... It will be a necessary possession for all Dickensians, both specialists and general readers, and very desirable for anyone interested in 19th-century literature and culture.... It collects and preserves more useful information
than any single previous volume about Dickens's work and life. --Adrian Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement
Scrupulous, encyclopedic, and useful. In short, everything a straight Oxford Companion to Dickens should be. --Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
It's the mark of this exemplary volume's marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian, and the sweep of its coverage from 'Abridgements' to 'Women's Issues, ' that you feel emboldened by the knowledge it imparts to argue almost any point of view. --Robert McCrum, The Observer

Here is the world of Dickens in brief but readily identifiable form.... It will prove invaluable to scholars, readers, and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond. --Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)
Paul Schlicke has masterminded a magnificent new Reader's Companion.... It will be a necessary possession for all Dickensians, both specialists and general readers, and very desirable for anyone interested in 19th-century literature and culture.... It collects and preserves more useful information than any single previous volume about Dickens's work and life. --Adrian Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement
Scrupulous, encyclopedic, and useful. In short, everything a straight Oxford Companion to Dickens should be. --Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement
It's the mark of this exemplary volume's marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian, and the sweep of its coverage from 'Abridgements' to 'Women's Issues, ' that you feel emboldened by the knowledge it imparts to argue almost any point of view. --Robert McCrum, The Observer


Here is the world of Dickens in brief but readily identifiable form.... It will prove invaluable to scholars, readers, and admirers of Dickens into the next century and beyond. --Peter Ackroyd, The Times (London)


Paul Schlicke has masterminded a magnificent new Reader's Companion.... It will be a necessary possession for all Dickensians, both specialists and general readers, and very desirable for anyone interested in 19th-century literature and culture.... It collects and preserves more useful information than any single previous volume about Dickens's work and life. --Adrian Poole, Times Higher Education Supplement


Scrupulous, encyclopedic, and useful. In short, everything a straight Oxford Companion to Dickens should be. --Matthew Reynolds, Times Literary Supplement


It's the mark of this exemplary volume's marvellous comprehensiveness in all matters Dickensian, and the sweep of its coverage from 'Abridgements' to 'Women's Issues, ' that you feel emboldened by the knowledge it imparts to argue almost any point of view. --Robert McCrum, The Observer


Author Bio

Paul Schlicke, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen, was President of the Dickens Society in 1994. He is an internationally renowned Dickens scholar.