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The Dickens Companions Ser.: Companion to Martin Chuzzlewit by Nancy Aycock Metz
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- “Hardback, cloth, dust jacket.”
- ISBN
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
ISBN-10
1873403844
ISBN-13
9781873403846
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203326191
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
569 Pages
Publication Name
Companion to Martin Chuzzlewit
Language
English
Subject
European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
Publication Year
2001
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Literary Criticism
Series
The Dickens Companions Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
12.3 Oz
Item Length
9.4 in
Item Width
6.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
College Audience
LCCN
2014-504333
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
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Nancy Aycock Metz's The Companion to "Martin Chuzzlewit," one of the now familiar Companion series to Dickens's novels, is a wonderful opportunity to immerse oneself in the thick details of Dickens's fictional worlds--to learn, for example, that Montague Tigg's "hollow square" was an absurd military formation for an attack [pp. 121-2] and that Mrs. Gamp's "cowcumbers" were considered an "'aristocratic delicacy'" [p. 343]. A nice bonus is an appendix of the novel's more egregious Americanisms. Andrew Elfenbein, Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 , 42, 4 p. 875, Autumn, "The latest in this admirable series of Companions to Dickens's works maintains the high standards of its precursors and immediately becomes an indispensable guide to one of Dickens's funniest novels. Nancy Aycock Metz shows, beneath its exuberant facade, how deeply "Martin Chuzzlewit" is engaged with contemporary political, social and historical debate, in particular with the 'socially constructed nature of personality and behaviour', and how significant are its allusions to Rousseau and Paley, and to the wild children and orang-utangs that inhabited and tested the boundaries of human nature"--Times Literary Supplement "Nancy Aycock Metz's The Companion to "Martin Chuzzlewit" one of the now familiar Companion series to Dickens's novels, is a wonderful opportunity to immerse oneself in the thick details of Dickens's fictional worlds - to learn, for example, that Montague Tigg's "hollow square" was an absurd military formation for an attack [pp. 121-2] and that Mrs. Gamp's "cowcumbers" were considered an "'aristocratic delicacy'" [p. 343]. A nice bonus is an appendix of the novel's more egregious Americanisms."--IStudies in English Literature 1500-1900 "Nancy Metz's Companion to "Martin Chuzzlewit" is a wonderful book and a good example of how scholarship at its best can be both enlightening and fun to read. ...this book is a feast! Metz writes in clear, concise prose and the quality and quantity of the information she provides makes this reference book a pleasure to read through, even from cover to cover."--IDickens Studies Annual, 33 "The Dickens Companions are clearly indispensible to the scholar."--Modern Language Review
Series Volume Number
8
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
823/.8
Table Of Content
List of Illustrations General Preface by the Editors Acknowledgements Abbreviations for Dickens's Works and Related Material Bibliographical Symbols and Abbreviations Introduction A Note on the Text How to use the Notes The Notes Appendix A: Preliminaries and Number Plans Appendix B: American English Appendix C: Map Relating to Martin Chuzzlewit Select Bibliography Index
Synopsis
Critical responses to "Martin Chuzzlewit" have varied. By examining the overlapping contexts within which Dickens wrote, this study makes original contributions to our understanding of the novel and its critical reception. The notes revise and expand the conventional wisdom regarding the sources for the American chapters, demonstrating that Dickens ddrew on a much wider field of writings about America than has been previously acknowledged. By reading the novel int he light of contemporary professional journals, Nancy Aycock Metz also exposes issues of that period which underlay Dickens's portrayal of Pecksniff, young Martin and the architectural scene. Finally the notes point to previously unidentified influences on theplot and characters, illuminating the impact on Dickens's thinking of a wide range of texts, from the Bridgewater Treatises to the Bible, from popular songs and newspaper advertisements to medical treatises and parliamentary reports., Critical responses to Martin Chuzzlewit have varied. By examining the overlapping contexts within which Dickens wrote, this study makes original contributions to our understanding of the novel and its critical reception. The notes revise and expand the conventional wisdom regarding the sources for the American chapters, demonstrating that Dickens ddrew on a much wider field of writings about America than has been previously acknowledged. By reading the novel int he light of contemporary professional journals, Nancy Aycock Metz also exposes issues of that period which underlay Dickens's portrayal of Pecksniff, young Martin and the architectural scene. Finally the notes point to previously unidentified influences on theplot and characters, illuminating the impact on Dickens's thinking of a wide range of texts, from the Bridgewater Treatises to the Bible, from popular songs and newspaper advertisements to medical treatises and parliamentary reports., Eighth volume in the Dickens Companions series, offering comprehensive annotation of the novel Martin Chuzzlewit.
LC Classification Number
PR4563.M342001b
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