Liminal Dickens : rites of passage in his work / edited by Valerie Kennedy and Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kennedy, Valerie, editor.

Kitsi-Mitakou, Katerina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Dickens, Charles.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, [England] : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016.

Summary:

Liminal Dickens is a collection of essays which cast new light on some surprisingly neglected areas of Dickens's writings: the rites of passage represented by such transitional moments and ceremonies as birth/christenings, weddings/marriages, and death. Although a great deal of attention has been paid to the family in Dickens's works, relatively little has been said about his representations of these moments and ceremonies. Similarly, although there have been discussions of Dickens's religious beliefs, neither his views on death and dying nor his ideas about the afterlife have been analysed in

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 17, 2016).

ISBN:

1-4438-9399-4

OCLC:

949668968