Norton Critical Editions：Hard Times

基本信息

Author: Charles Dickens , Edited by Fred Kaplan

Format: Paperback | 512 pages

Publisher WW Norton & Co

ISBN10 0393284387

ISBN13 9780393284386

Publication 22 Aug 2016

Dimensions: 132 x 213 x 28mm | 500g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

由Sylvere Monod编辑的文本，在这里附有说明的脚注。狄更斯时代的批评家和理论家的背景作品为读者提供了他们关于工业主义、教育和功利主义的观点的例子。包括八篇新的评论文章。

The 1854 text, edited by Sylvere Monod, is accompanied here by explanatory footnotes. Contextual pieces by critics and theorists of Dickens' time bring readers examples of their views on industrialism, education and utilitarianism. Included are eight new critical essays.

作者简介

Charles Dickens (1812-1870) is one of the most acclaimed and popular writers of all time. His many works include the classics The Old Curiosity Shop, Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield, Great Expectations, Bleak House, Hard Times, Our Mutual Friend, The Pickwick Papers and many more. Fred Kaplan is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English at Queens College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York. A biographer and literary scholar, he is the author of John Quincy Adams: American Visionary, The Singular Mark Twain: A Biography, Lincoln: The Biography of a Writer, Henry James: The Imagination of Genius: A Biography, and Dickens: A Biography, among others. His Thomas Carlyle: A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics' Circle Award and for the Pulitzer Prize. His Sacred Tears: Sentimentality in Victorian Fiction, Dickens and Mesmerism: The Hidden Springs of Fiction, and Miracles of Rare Device: The Poet's Sense of Self in Nineteenth-Century Poetry are important contributions to the study of Romantic and Victorian British literature and culture. He is currently at work on a study of Lincoln, John Quincy Adams, and slavery and a biography of Thomas Jefferson.