Dickens and the Spirit of the Age
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 September 1999
- ISBN 9780198183549
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages206 pages
- Size 224x144x17 mm
- Weight 357 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This study of Dickens in relation to his period shows how deeply he reflected its vibrant novelty, and how his works transform the social and cultural stimuli of the time - technological enterprise, urbanization, class mobility, the sense of profound difference from the preceding age - into a new and flexible fictional form.
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Dickens and the Spirit of the Age considers the extent to which Dickens and his work reflect the vibrant novelty of the middle third of the nineteenth century, an age in which the modern world was shaped and determined. It looks at the culture from which Dickens sprang - a mechanized and increasingly urbanized culture - and it sees his rootlessness and restlessness as symptomatic of what was essentially new: the period's political and technological enterprise; its urbanization; its new definitions of social class and social mobility; and, finally, its dynamic sense of distinction from the preceding age. Although his fiction was rooted in traditions established and evolved in the eighteenth century, Dickens was uniquely equipped to remould the English novel into a new and flexible fictional form, as a direct response to the social, urban, and political challenges of his time.
The discussion of Paris and London is among the strongest in the book, and Sanders elegantly reveals some of the ways in which these cities, with their various histories and their different cityscapes, so strongly attracted the great Victorian writer. ... Sanders's book convincingly illustrates Dickens's qualifications for representing and engaging with the novelty of his own age. ...By so adeptly presenting his case, Sanders makes compelling claims for Dickens's continuing relevance and importance to our own age.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Man from Nowhere
Signs of the Times
Telling of Two Cities
Simple Faith and Norman Blood: Dickens and Class
'So Far Like the Present': Dickens and the Immediate Past
Select Bibliography
Index
