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Written by Charles Dickens, "Great Expectations" centers around his primary themes. This guide gives an introduction to the text including its context, Dickens' style and imagery, its critical reception starting from the publication time, acts as a guide to the illustrated editions and film adaptations, and also acts as a guide to further reading.

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Part of a series, which provides an overview of the context, criticism and influence of key works. This title is not only one of the last great novels to be written by Dickens but is also one which centres around his primary themes: the importance of childhood in relationship to adult life, concepts of guilt and imprisonment.

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The Life of our Lord is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published intil 1934. This is the first major study to carefully and seriously consider the work and its place in the Dickens corpus.

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"The Life of Our Lord" is a life of Jesus written by Dickens for his children in the 1840s but not published until 1934. Using "The Life of Our Lord" as a source for our understanding of Dickens' Christian worldview, this book explores Dickens' Christian voice in his fiction, journalism, and letters. It presents an insight into his churchmanship.

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Explores the coverage of music in the journals edited by Dickens and how they reflect Dickens' own attitude to music and its social role. This title presents the full analysis of the articles on music published in the journals conducted by Charles Dickens.

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Evaluating Emily Dickinson's poetry within the context of Romanticism, Joanne Diehl demonstrates how the poet both manifests and boldly subverts this literary tradition. One of the most important reasons for the poet's divergence from it, Professor Diehl argues, is a powerful sense of herself as a woman, which also creates a feeling of estrangement

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Poses fundamental questions about reading habits we have come to take for granted. Featuring illustrations from Dickinson's manuscripts, this book makes a contribution to the study of Dickinson and of nineteenth-century American poetry. It also maps out the future for work in historical poetics and lyric theory.

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Helbig and Perkins offer in one comprehensive volume information about fiction of recognized distinction written for children: entries give biographical data on authors, detailed plot summaries, information about outstanding characters, memorable settings, significant motifs.

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With its companion volume, this book effectively provides descriptions and evaluations of award-winning American fiction for children over the last 125 years.

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This reference guide contains over 500 entries on titles, authors, characters, settings, and other elements from 189 children's books by 136 20th-century authors. It also contains biographical entries for leading authors of children's fiction.

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Children's literature continues to receive growing scholarly attention, and this is due, in part, to the increased awareness of the complexity of these works and their importance in the curriculum.

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Young adult readers have special needs and concerns, and librarians have become increasingly interested in selecting books suitable for them.

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The entries, which portray the literature within the sociocultural context of Brazilian life, describe more than 300 major figures and literary and cultural movements of Brazilian civilization.

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Designed for librarians, teachers, and researchers who work with children's literature, this volume offers comprehensive coverage of a broad spectrum of award-winning fiction deemed worthy of closer attention by scholars and further exposure to youngsters.

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Not a general dictionary of literary terms, the Dictionary of Concepts in Literary Criticism and Theory treats seventy fundamental and overarching concepts from allegory and allusion to tragedy and unity.

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This revised and expanded edition of the only English-language dictionary of Italian literature provides some 400 alphabetically arranged entries on Italian writers, periods, literary movements, and versification, and on critical problems related to literary history.

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A reference on literary and dramatic censorship in Tudor and Stuart England. The 92 entries highlight the issues which could provoke the wrath of the censor; the ways in which works were modified in response to censorship; and the fate of the authors who roused the censor's ire.

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Features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. The text contains bibliographical, biographical and critical material - placing each work cited in its cultural and historical context.

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