Night Side Of Dickens: Cannibalism, Passion, Necessity (Victorian Life & Literature),Used

The Night Side Of Dickens Looks Beyond The Public Image Of Charles Dickens And His Works To Examine The Startling Dark Side Of The Novelist'S Creative Powers, The Side Where Images Of Cannibalism, Unbridled Passion, And Inexorable Fate Resided. Harry Stone, One Of The Preeminent Dickens Scholars Of Our Generation, Has Studied The Entire Dickens Oeuvre, Including The Previously Unattributed Story 'The Bride'S Chamber,' A Work That Provides Important New Insights Into Dickens' Emotional Life And Creative Energies.By Concentrating On The Origins And Then Tracing The Astonishing Development Of Three Crucial But Largely Unexamined Areas Of Dickens' Life And Art His Obsession With Cannibalism, His Latterday Experience Of And Depictions Of Passion, And His Increasing Attention To Necessity, To Behavior That Is Predetermined And Inexorable Stone Offers Us An Enlarged And Deeper Appreciation Of Dickens' Protean Art. Employing Biographical, Psychological, Sociological, Historical, Linguistic, Structural, Textual, And Archetypal Techniques, The Night Side Of Dickens Ranges Through The Entire Dickens Canon, Including Newly Discovered And Newly Authenticated Writings And Important Unpublished Materials. Stone Also Examines The Eighteenth And Nineteenthcentury Literary, Journalistic, Graphic, Medical, Ethnographic, And Other, Often Exotic, Sources That Helped Shape The Way Dickens Saw And Recreated Everyday Life. In The Course Of This Wideranging Odyssey Through Dickens' Mind And World, Stone Presents The Reader With A New And Unconventional Appreciation Of Nineteenthcentury Life And Culture, A Panorama Teeming With Humor, Horror, And Boundless Diversity, All Brought To Vibrant Immediacy In 145 Fullpage Illustrations.A Major Work Of Literary Scholarship, The Night Side Of Dickens Offers Important Insights, Not Only For Dickens Readers And Scholars, But For Anyone Interested In The Creative Process And In The Bright Highways And Dark Byways Of Nineteenthcentury Literature And Life.