How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel: 105 (Palgrave Study Guides:Literature)

How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel: 105 (Palgrave Study Guides:Literature)

by KeithSelby (Author)

Synopsis

This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. It helps students to identify a novel's major thematic concerns and interests and to argue a case purely from the evidence of the text. But it also moves beyond a straighforwardly thematic analysis to consider how a novel is put together and how it works. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
Edition: 1989
Publisher: Palgrave
Published: 18 Jun 1989

ISBN 10: 0333467280
ISBN 13: 9780333467282

Author Bio
KEITH SELBY taught in higher education for seven years. He has published his own poetry, fiction, and many articles and reviews, as well a Screening the Novel: the Theory and Practice of Literary Dramatisation (with Robert Giddings and Chris Wensley, 1988).