Middlebury

ENAM 1004

Short Dickens

Short Dickens
“Whatever the word ‘great’ means,” wrote Chesterton, “Dickens was what it means.” In this course we will study five of the shortest of Dickens’s fifteen novels, which appeared serially between 1837 and 1870: Oliver Twist, Hard Times, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations, and the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. We will discuss, in addition, Dickens’s rise to fame, Victorian London, serial publication, sentimentalism, the illustrations to Dickens’s novels, as well as various commercial enterprises based on the mania for Dickens—among them the ill-fated Dickens World in Kent.
Subject:
English & American Literatures
Department:
English & American Literatures
Division:
Literature
Requirements Fulfilled:
EUR LIT WTR

Sections in Winter 2014

Winter 2014

ENAM1004A-W14 Lecture (Napier)