
Dickens
Adolphus William Ward(Author)
Cambridge University Press
Published on 3. November 2011
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-1-108-03450-0 (ISBN)
Description
Published in the first series of English Men of Letters in 1882, this biography of Charles Dickens (1812-70) provides a short introduction to the life and works of the most popular author of the Victorian era. Sir Adolphus William Ward (1837-1924), a prominent scholar who taught at the newly founded the University of Manchester and became President of the British Academy, wrote on English literature from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries, and translated Curtius' History of Greece. His work complements earlier biographies of the writer who styled himself as 'The Inimitable' and whose influence as a novelist, social commentator and social reformer cannot be overstated. The life is treated chronologically, and a final chapter discusses 'the future of Dickens' fame', concluding that although he has faults as a novelist, his place in the canon of English literature is secure.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Worked examples or Exercises
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
344 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-108-03450-0 (9781108034500)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
Preface; 1. Before Pickwick; 2. From success to success; 3. Strange lands; 4. David Copperfield; 5. Changes; 6. Last years; 7. The future of Dickens' fame.