Dickens and crime
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Dickens and crime
Macmillan, 1994
3rd ed
- : hard
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
- Volume
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: hard ISBN 9780333619537
Description
'One of the best social commentators on Dickens...models of historical scholarship.'- Gertrude Himmelfarb, Distinguished Professor of History, City University of New York. This classic of Dickens criticism, now in its third edition, provides a fascinating insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime. Extraordinary in character, as well as literary skill, he displayed a shrewd insight into the criminal character, whilst demanding tough penalties for those who broke the law. At one stage attracted to a career as a metropolitan magistrate, Dickens turned instead to fiction and discovered there an outlet for his enduring fascination with the darker side of human nature. Thieves, cheats and murderers people the pages of his novels, few of which are without some serious crime. But the treatment of crime for Dickens was far more than an authorial device: it was a focal point for his deep concern with social problems and played a vital role in his attempt to understand these ills.
Dickens and Crime continues to be one of the most significant and illuminating studies into Dickens's creative imagination, and its reappearance in print will be warmly welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.
Table of Contents
Preface to the 1993 Edition - Preface to the Midland Edition - Dickens and His Age - Newgate - The Silent System: Coldbath Fields Prison - The Home for Homeless Women - The Separate System: Philadelphia and the Bastille - The Pentonville Experiment - The Marks System - The Bench - The Police - The Punishment of Death - Murder: From Bill Sikes to Bradley Headstone - The Mysteries in Edwin Drood - Notes - Bibliography - Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780333619544
Description
This criticism provides an insight into Dickens's thinking and writing on crime. The book considers his insight into the criminal character and his desire for tough penalties for those who broke the law.
Table of Contents
- Dickens and his age
- Newgate
- the silent system - Coldbath Fields Prison
- the home for homeless women
- the separate system - Philadelphia and the Bastille
- the Pentonville experiment
- the Marks system
- the bench
- the police
- the punishment of death
- murder - from Bill Sikes to Bradley Headstone
- the mysteries in "Edwin Drood".
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