Charles Dickens: The World of His Novels

by J. Hillis Miller

Book Overview

George Orwell once said of Dickens'e(tm) work: 'eoeIt is not so much a series of books, it is more like a world.'e In this book, J. Hillis Miller attempts to identify this 'eoeworld,'e to show how a single view of life pervades every novel that Dickens wrote, and to trace the development of this view throughout the chronological span of Dickens'e(tm) career. There are full critical analyses of six of the novels'e" Pickwick Papers , Oliver Twist ,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674110005
• ISBN13: 9780674110007
• Release Date: January 1958
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 366 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"