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A series designed to help students develop their own critical skills by offering practical advice about how to read, understand and analyze literature. This volume focuses on the novels of Charles Dickens giving general advice on interpreting his works as well as looking at specific titles.
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This book provides a clear method of study which encourages students to construct their own interpretation of any of Dicken's novels. It helps students to identify a novel's major thematic concerns and interests and to argue a case purely from the evidence of the text. But it also moves beyond a straighforwardly thematic analysis to consider how a novel is put together and how it works. This in turn provides students with a way of identifying the distinctiveness of Dickens's fiction and with a way of structuring an intelligent critical response to any of his novels.
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