Dickens and Women
Dickens and Women by Michael Slater, published by Edward Everett Root on September 29, 2017, is a scholarly study that provides an in-depth examination of Charles Dickens’s portrayal of women. This edition features a substantial new introduction that addresses recent commentary on the subject. Slater explores Dickens’s experiences with women in various roles, including those of son, brother, lover, husband, and father, highlighting how these relationships influenced his artistic achievements.
Readers will find a thorough analysis of Dickens’s views on female nature and the roles of women both in the home and society. The book delves into the complexities of his relationships with women and scrutinizes the legends surrounding his private life. Additionally, it presents a detailed survey of women in Dickens’s novels, making it a significant contribution to the fields of literary criticism and social history, particularly regarding 19th-century perspectives on women. This edition spans 485 pages and is written in English.
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This brilliant, classic and scholarly study provides the fullest treatment of a key subject. It is one of the essential works on Dickens’s work and life.
A substantial new introduction deals with more recent commentary.
Dickens’s treatment of women is a central aspect of his artistic achievement.
Professor Slater examines the novelist’s experience of women – as son, brother, lover, husband, and father, and as it affected the deepest emotional currents in his life. His perception of female nature and his conception of women’s role in the home and outside it – and the ways in which these found expression in his art – are pivotal topics.
Professor Slater has sifted the mass of legends and doubtful traditions about Dickens’s private life to present a close examination of his relations with women, and of his views of woman’s nature and the womanly ideal.
This work offers the most detailed survey of women in the novels, and the most comprehensive attempted. It has been acclaimed internationally.
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