Other Dickens Pickwick to Chuzzlewit
Other Dickens Pickwick to Chuzzlewit by John Bowen, published by Oxford University Press in 2003, offers a comprehensive examination of Charles Dickens’s early novels, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. This edition, comprising 232 pages, presents a detailed analysis that highlights the radical nature of these works in both political and fictional contexts, emphasizing their inventive comic force and significant impact on the English novel.
In this first full-length study of Dickens’s early career in thirty years, Bowen employs contemporary theory alongside historical insights to explore the transformative power of these narratives. Readers will find a nuanced discussion that reveals how Dickens’s writing challenges conventional understandings of his work and his role in literary history. The book engages with themes of literary criticism and European literature, providing a scholarly perspective on the complexities of Dickens’s contributions to the literary landscape.
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In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and transforms our ways of understanding Dickens’s work and his place in the history of the novel.
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