Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel

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Charles Dickens and the Form of the Novel is written by Graham Daldry and published by Routledge. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1317204093 (ISBN 10) and 9781317204091 (ISBN 13).

First published in 1987. While there have been commentaries on his humour, his seriousness, his social concerns, and other specific aspects of his work such accounts have only tended to divide our understanding of the novels, to lead us to see them as failures of artistic unity. In this book the author seeks to address this question of unity and find a terminology that can treat language, plot and representation of reality as a coherent imaginative effort. This thesis is worked out in detail with reference to several of the novels, and represents a challenging re-evaluation Dickens’ achievement as a novelist. This book will be if interest to student of literature.