How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel

By Keith Selby

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333467280
• ISBN13: 9780333467282
• Release Date: June 1989
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
• Length: 152 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"