[(Authors in Context: Charles Dickens )] [Author: Andrew Sanders] [Jul-2009]

by Andrew Sanders

Authors in Context examines the work of major authors in relation to their own times and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Charles Dickens was both a representative Victorian and an artist who is quintessentially a 'Post-Romantic'. He was the most popular author of his age and the one who most vividly reflected the contradictory impulses of Victorian society, its energy and invention as much as its social and political anomalies. This book explores Dickens's interest in the urban phenomenon which so marks nineteenth-century culture, and it looks at the vital interconnection between his life and his art. Like his character, David Copperfield, Dickens lived his life and pursued his career 'thoroughly in earnest', but he was also a great comic writer whose work resonates well beyond his own age and continues to be recontextualized on the stage, on film, and on television.

Genres: Nonfiction, Books About Books

Unknown Binding

First published June 26, 2003

About the author

Abu Muahmmad Ibraheem Sanders (Andrew Sanders) is a Muslim convert who embraced Islam in 2002.

-From: Lumatul I'tiqad, About translator, page 18.

Reviews

[Kyriakos Sorokkou]

This was not a biography of Charles Dickens as many readers believe. It is an examination of his work in relation to his own time(s) and to our (present) day. It explores different kinds of contexts: politics, religion, society, London and class, science and technology and the literary context. It explores adaptations of Dickens' novels into Fine Art (paintings, sculptures etc), the stage, major films, and television series. Chapter 1 which is the longest and most interesting to me is about Dickens life from infancy to death. An interesting read, about an interesting author

[Haythem Bastawy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Encyclopedic in nature, has something about everything, but not enough of anything. Good for a general overview.