Dickens and Crime

Macmillan, London 1994 Third Ed.,

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Author

Collins Philip

Publishers

Macmillan, London 1994 Third Ed.

Binding description

Dust jacket

State of preservation

Very Good

Binding

Softcover

Inscribed

First edition

Description

8vo, br. ed. dickens displayed a shrewd insight into the criminal character, whilst demanding tough penalties for those who broke the law. At one stage attracted to a career as a metropolitan magistrate, Dickens turned instead to fiction and discovered there an outlet for his enduring fascination with the darker side of human nature. Thieves, cheats and murderers people the pages of his novels, few of which are without some serious crime. But the treatment of crime for Dickens was far more than an authorial device: it was a focal point for his deep concern with social problems and played a vital role in his attempt to understand these ills. Dickens and Crime continues to be one of the most significant and illuminating studies into Dickens s creative imagination, and its reappearance in print will be warmly welcomed by scholars and general readers alike.