Dickens and creativity Barbara Hardy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hardy, Barbara Nathan, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870--Criticism and interpretation.

Dickens, Charles.

Imagination in literature.

Creation (Literary, artistic, etc.).

Physical Description:

xvi, 181 p. ; 25 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London New York Continuum 2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness, subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters, language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue, images of normality, madness, extremity, subversion and disorder, poetry and inter-textuality, anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism, influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh. Discussing Dickens's novels and some of his letters, sketches, essays and stories, Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.

Contents:

A career and its context

Dickens discusses creativity

The awareness of art in Sketches by Boz, Pickwick papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas carol and The chimes

The artist as narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great expectations

Talkative men and women in Pickwick papers, Nicholas Nickleby, Martin Chuzzlewit and Little Dorrit

Imaginative extremes, negations and norms

Subversions and oppositions

Crises of imagination in Oliver Twist, A Christmas carol, Domeby and son, Bleak house, Hard times and The lazy tour of two idle apprentices

Forecast and fantasy in Little Dorrit

Creative conversation in Hard times, Great expectations and Our mutual friend

Assertions of style : rhythm and repetition in A tale of two cities and Our mutual friend

Shakespeare in Dickens : David Copperfield and Great expectations

Dickens in the twentieth century

Acknowledgments

Editions and Works Cited

Preface

1. A Career and its Context

2. Dickens discusses Creativity

3. Awareness of Art in Sketches By Boz, Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, Barnaby Rudge, The Old Curiosity Shop, A Christmas Carol and The Chimes

4. The Artist as Narrator in Doctor Marigold, David Copperfield, Bleak House and Great Expectations

5. Talkative Men and Women

6. Imaginative Extremes, Norms and Negations

7. Subversions and Oppositions

8. Crises of Imagination

9. Forecast and Fantasy in Little Dorrit

10. Creative Conversation in Hard Times, Great Expectations and Our Mutual Friend

11. Assertions of Style: Rhythm and Repetition in A Tale of Two Cities and Our Mutual Friend

12. Dialogues with Shakespeare in David Copperfield and Great Expectations

13. Dickens in the Twentieth Century

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-177) and index

ISBN:

9786613272393

0826495265 (hbk.) :

9780826495266 (hbk.) :

1847064590 (pbk.) :

9781847064592 (pbk.) :

9781474211321

1474211321

9781283272391

1283272393

9781441197825

1441197826

OCLC:

893336059