Books written by Michael Hollington

CHARLES DICKENS 200: TEXT AND BEYOND

Referring to the analysing capability of Dickens, Hesketh Pearson in his biography points out that '[t]he uncanny exactitude of his [Dickens's] studies in mental derangement proves the power and closeness of his observation.
Dickens and Modernity

Unauthorised publication contravenes applicable laws First published 2012 D. S. Brewer, Cambridge D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. 668 Mt Hope ...
Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key aspects that particularly impacted on Dickens’ imagination: popular theatre (especially pantomime), caricature, and the tradition of the Gothic ...
Dickens and Italy: Little Dorrit and Pictures from Italy

‘Dickens and America’ has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so, despite his friend Forster's assertion that his long stay in Genoa represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book, ...
Some Keywords in Dickens

but as yet no comprehensive guide to “keywords” in his writings. The present volume is obviously not that – it offers pointedly to consider only some Dickensian keywords – but its limitations of scope should be thought of as amply ...
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe

I – Chez Charles Dickens', in L'hôtel du dragon: Souvenirs de voyage – Deux visites – Les gens qui posent, Paris: Michel Lévy, pp. 261–78. Cohen, Jane R. (1980) Charles Dickens and His Original Illustrators, Columbus: Ohio State ...
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe

The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected ...
Some Keywords in Dickens

Jarvie, Paul A. Ready to Trample on All Human Law: Finance Capitalism in the Fiction of Charles Dickens. Routledge, 2005. Letissier, Georges. “The Wiles of Insolvency: Gain and Loss in Little Dorrit.” Dickens Quarterly, vol. 27, no.
Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

“And how have I been going on, this long time, Mr. Venus?” is Wegg's conversational gambit -an ironically self-centred reversal of conventional greetings justified, it transpires, by the fact that Venus owns Wegg's leg.
Imagining Italy: Victorian Writers and Travellers

She has published widely on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century writers, particularly on Fielding, Dickens and Stevenson. She is now contributing to the volume on The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe, edited by Michael Hollington.
Charles Dickens: General assessments since 1945

Charles Dickens: General assessments since 1945