Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby, and the Dance of Death

by Jeremy Tambling

Book Overview

This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens's texts.

Nicholas Nickleby deals with the abduction and destruction of children, often with the collusion of their parents. It concentrates on this theme in a way which continues from Oliver...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367143089
• ISBN13: 9780367143084
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 174 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"