Description: FIRST PRINTING. "Charles Dickens A to Z" gives readers and researchers an opportunity to discover the astonishing richness of Dickens' literary achievements in the context of his equally rich life and times. Dickensian topics referenced and cross-referenced throughout this meticulously researched compendium include: his novels, journalistic essays, sketches, poems, and plays: his characters; his private life, family members, friends, places of work and residence, and travels; contemporary novelists, journalists, illustrators, publishers, and actors; social themes, such as the Industrial Revolution, Chartism, the Corn Laws, the Poor Law, juvenille crime, and slavery; literary forms and terms, such as social problem novel, sensation novel, characterization, caricature, allegory, myth, interpollary table, dialect, symbolism, and doubles; literary themes associated with his work, such as children, Christmas, fancy, dandyism, debtor's prison, schools, aristocracy, and crime; and much more. Text enhanced with many black & white drawing illustrations. 432 pages. Mild bump to top of DJ spine as well as some miniscule scuffing/flecking on DJ spine, elsewise a fine copy of A DICKENS AFFICIONADO/COLLECTOR MUST!

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Binding: Hardcover

Edition: First Edition