The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination

Author:   Beryl Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:  

9780367880187


Pages:   274
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Beryl Gray
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.453kg
ISBN:  

9780367880187


ISBN 10:   0367880180
Pages:   274
Publication Date:   12 December 2019
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I A Life With Dogs 1 Dog Fancy 2 A Dog's Life with Dickens: Timber (1842 -54) 3 'I have taken to Dogs lately': The Great Gad's Hill Dogs 4 Dogs Encountered 5 Dickens's Dream Dog: Mrs Bouncer Part II Knowing his Place: The Dog in Dickens's Art 6 Man and Dog: Oliver Twist and The Old Curiosity Shop 7 The Circus Dog and the Whelp: Hard Times 8 The Drover's Dog: Bleak House 9 The Essential Dog: Dombey and Son and Little Dorrit 10 The Defining Dog: David Copperfield and Great Expectations Conclusion

Reviews

'Gray is an intelligent and sensitive reader of Dickens's work and her arguments are worth following. Dickensians will love her book.' Claire Tomalin, The Guardian 'This book informs and entertains. Unlike some monographs these days, its title really does identify its subject: the Dickensian imagination. Dr. Gray understands her charge to encompass both what ardent Dickensians relish -- details of Dickens's life -- and what many Dickens scholars seek, an enlarged and nuanced comprehension of his fecund imagination.' Review 19 'Beryl Gray must be the foremost authority on the subject of Victorian writers and their dogs, and with The Dog in the Dickensian Imagination, she has written the ne plus ultra of the already considerable literature on the subject of Dickens's dogs, real and fictional.' Dickens Quarterly


Author Information

Beryl Gray is the author of George Eliot and Music (Macmillan, 1989) and of many contributions to scholarly publications, both books and periodicals. A former Sessional Lecturer in English at Birkbeck University of London, she was co-editor of the George Eliot Review until 2014. She is a vice president of the George Eliot Fellowship and an active member of the Dickens Fellowship.

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