| Description |
viii, 221 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm |
| Contents |
Posthumous and prenatal Dickens / Dominic Rainsford -- Little Dorrit : a grammatology of the books of birth, death, and marriage / Trevor Hope -- Death in other words : Dickens's novels and the euphemism boom / Margaret J.-M. Sönmez -- Dickens, "first things" and the rites of growing up / Catherine Waters -- "Ji" : minor characters at Dickens's weddings / Mike Hollington --The workhouse world of Oliver Twist : mother, orphan, foundling / Jeremy Tambling -- Dodging Nell : Dickens and resilience / Zelma Catalan -- "A little life among the multitude of lesser deaths" : productive life cycles in Little Dorrit / Katerina Kitsi-Mitakou -- Evolutionary murder : death by water and the struggle for existence in Dickens's Our Mutual Friend / Victor Sag -- The rhetoric of Dickens's deathbeds : challenging realist conventions / David Parker -- Life and/or death : lineage versus environment in Oliver Twist / Valerie Kennedy -- A story of an absence : the writerly mystery of Edwin Drood / Maria Vara |
| Notes |
Essays originating from a conference on Dickens held in Thessaloniki in 2012 |
| Subject |
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation -- Congresses.
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Liminality in literature -- Congresses.
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Life change events in literature -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kennedy, Valerie, editor
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Kitsē-Mytakou, Katerina, editor
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| ISBN |
1443888907 |
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9781443888905 |
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