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How to Study a Charles Dickens Novel

  • Textbook
  • © 1989

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Authors:
  1. Keith Selby
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Part of the book series: Macmillan Study Skills (MASTSK)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Introduction: reading a Dickens novel

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 1-9

  3. Hard Times

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 10-30

  4. Great Expectations

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 31-56

  5. Bleak House

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 57-79

  6. Martin Chuzzlewit

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 80-99

  7. Dombey and Son

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 100-127

  8. Writing an essay

    • Keith Selby
    Pages 128-137

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 138-141
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About this book

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.

About the author

KEITH SELBY taught in higher education for seven years. He has published his own poetry, fiction, and many articles and reviews, as well a Screening the Novel: the Theory and Practice of Literary Dramatisation (with Robert Giddings and Chris Wensley, 1988).

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