Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens

Chesterton, G. K.

Victorian Fiction, Comic Characters, and the Moral Imagination

11,40 €

ISBN: 9788027380169

Breite: 15,2 cm

Höhe: 22,9 cm

Gewicht: 209 g

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In Appreciations and Criticisms of the Works of Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton offers not a neutral catalogue but a spirited act of critical recovery. Moving through Dickens's major novels and figures, he treats character, caricature, melodrama, comedy, and moral imagination as parts of a single democratic art. His style is paradoxical, aphoristic, exuberantly argumentative: Edwardian criticism shaped by journalism, Christian humanism, and resistance to the fashionable disdain for Victorian abundance. Chesterton's lifelong affinity with Dickens arose from shared London sensibilities, affection for the common person, and suspicion of systems that flatten the soul. A poet, essayist, novelist, controversialist, and later Catholic apologist, Chesterton found in Dickens a precursor to his own defense of wonder, domesticity, social sympathy, and comic excess against both utilitarian materialism and arid aestheticism. This book is recommended to readers who want Dickens interpreted by a critic almost as imaginative as his subject. It is especially valuable for students of Victorian fiction, admirers of Chesterton's prose, and anyone interested in criticism that argues, celebrates, and illuminates rather than merely classifies.

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Format:	Taschenbuch / Softcover
Thema/BIC:	Literatur: Geschichte und Kritik
Verlag:	e-artnow

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