Autor: Michael Hollington

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian reader …

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian reader …

This book is a companion volume to Dickens and Italy, edited by Michael Hollington and Francesca Orestano, which aimed to fill an important gap in our understanding of England’s paramount novelist by …

‘Dickens and America’ has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so, despite his friend Forster’s assertion that his long stay in Genoa represented ‘the turning-poi …

The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens’s birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become …

Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens’ vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens’s birth is testimony …

This volume shows how highly conscious Dickens was of words – of their meaning of course, and of the ideas they conjured up, but also of their very substance, texture, plasticity, visuality, and reso …

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens’s reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scho …

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens’s reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scho …