Results 31 to 40 of about 108,142 (207)

IRONY IN CHARLES DICKEN'S OLIVER TWIST

open access: yesEnglisia, 2016
This paper describes the types of irony used by Charles Dickens in his notable early work, Oliver Twist, as well as the reasons the irony was chosen. As a figurative language, irony is utilized to express one’s complex feelings without truly saying them.
Ika Kana Trisnawati   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Protest against child exploitation reflected In charles dickens’ oliver twist (1838) : A sociological approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This study is about protest against child exploitation. The problem of this study is how protest against child exploitation is reflected in Charles Dickens‘ Oliver Twist. The object of the study is Oliver Twist novel by Charles Dickens.
, Dr. M. Thoyibi, M.S   +2 more
core  

Man-made Fibres? The Split Personalities of Victorian Manliness [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This essay investigates the textual traces of a split that was central to the Victorian conception of manliness: the contradiction of gentlemanliness which demanded both the capacity to commit violence and the requirement to be ‘civilized’.
Adams James Eli   +13 more
core   +1 more source

Violence in the vicinity: the mental health impacts of nearby crime

open access: yesEconomica, EarlyView.
Abstract Crime leads to a range of adverse outcomes for those who live nearby, and a common hypothesis is that this relationship is mediated by mental health. However, little is known about how the mental health of local residents is affected when an incident of violent crime occurs in their vicinity.
Panka Bencsik   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

‘A veritable Dickens shrine’: Commemorating Charles Dickens at the Dickens House Museum

open access: yes19, 2011
In 1925, the Dickens Fellowship founded the ‘Dickens House Museum’ at Number 48 Doughty Street, London. The site held a particular significance for Fellowship members as it was the last remaining London home of the author and the location was valued for ...
Catherine Malcolmson
doaj   +2 more sources

Adapting Dickens: narratology and interaction with “The boy and the convict” [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
El presente artículo pretende examinar el impacto de Charles Dickens en las adaptaciones cinematográficas más tempranas y, especialmente, analiza el filme The Boy and the Convict (David Aylott, 1909).
Martínez-Alcañiz, Violeta
core  

Before It Was ‘New’: A Neglected History of Lived Experience–Led Criminal Justice

open access: yesThe Howard Journal of Crime and Justice, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT A growing range of criminal justice initiatives are being shaped and delivered by people with lived experience, including peer mentoring, prisoner councils and policy advocacy roles. While often seen as recent innovations, we reveal a deeper, largely unacknowledged history dating back to at least the 19th century.
Gillian Buck   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scatasta Gino and Federica Zullo (editors), The Invention(s) of Charles Dickens: Riletture, Revisioni e Riscritture

open access: yesAltre Modernità, 2019
Scatasta Gino and Federica Zullo (editors), The Invention(s) of Charles Dickens: Riletture, Revisioni e Riscritture (Bologna, Bononia University Press, 2014, 288 pp.
Sara Gazo
doaj   +1 more source

Interpretation, 1980 And 1880 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
This article reviews recent methodological interventions in the field of literary study, many of which take nineteenth-century critics, readers, or writers as models for their less interpretive reading practices.
Buurma, Rachel Sagner, Heffernan, L.
core   +2 more sources

Guide to the Charles Dickens Collection, 1837 – 1981 (Bulk 1837 – 1904) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Charles Dickens, born February 7, 1812, was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world’s most well-known fictional characters and is generally regarded as one of, if not the greatest, novelist of the Victorian Period. His work was,
Kingsley, Orson
core   +1 more source

Home - About - Disclaimer - Privacy