Who's Who in Dickens

by Donald Hawes

Overview

Who's Who in Dickens is an accessible guide to the many characters in Charles Dickens' fiction. Dickens' characters are strikingly portrayed and have become a vital part of our cultural heritage - Scrooge has become a by-word for stinginess, Uriah Heep for unctuousness. From the much loved Oliver Twist to the fact-grubbing Mr Gradgrind, the obstinate Martin Chuzzlewit to the embittered Miss Havisham, this book covers the famous and lesser known characters in Dickens.
The book contains a physical and psychological profile of each character, a critical look at his characters by past and present influential commentators and over forty illustrations of major characters drawn by Dickens' contemporaries.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138153974
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	12/02/2016
Series:	Who's Who
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.06(w) x 7.81(h) x (d)

About the Author

Donald Hawes is a visiting lecturer in English at the Open University, Birkbeck College, University of London, and the University of Westminster. He has edited works by Dickens and Thackeray for Penguin Classics, Oxford Worlds Classics and the Everyman Library.

Table of Contents

List of figures , Foreword by David Parker, Introduction to the 2002 edition, Acknowledgements, Note on texts and references, Abbreviations of Dickens’s works cited, List of characters by work, Introduction, who’s who in dickens, Bibliography