Book contents
- Dickens’s Style
- Series page
- Dickens’s Style
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editions and abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One Dickens’s umbrellas
- Chapter Two Dickens by the clock
- Chapter Three Dickens’s rhythms
- Chapter Four Spectres of style
- Chapter Five Dickens and the form of the historical present
- Chapter Six ‘Gigantic domesticity’: the exaggeration of Charles Dickens
- Chapter Seven Style and the making of character in Dickens
- Chapter Eight Snarling Charles: a Saxon style of restraint
- Chapter Nine Compound interest: Dickens’s figurative style
- Chapter Ten Reading the book of himself:The Uncommercial Travellerand ‘Dickensian’ style
- Chapter Eleven Lived death: Dickens’s rogue glyphs
- Chapter Twelve Dispensing with style
- Select bibliography
- Index
Chapter Two - Dickens by the clock
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2013
- Dickens’s Style
- Series page
- Dickens’s Style
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Editions and abbreviations
- Introduction
- Chapter One Dickens’s umbrellas
- Chapter Two Dickens by the clock
- Chapter Three Dickens’s rhythms
- Chapter Four Spectres of style
- Chapter Five Dickens and the form of the historical present
- Chapter Six ‘Gigantic domesticity’: the exaggeration of Charles Dickens
- Chapter Seven Style and the making of character in Dickens
- Chapter Eight Snarling Charles: a Saxon style of restraint
- Chapter Nine Compound interest: Dickens’s figurative style
- Chapter Ten Reading the book of himself:The Uncommercial Travellerand ‘Dickensian’ style
- Chapter Eleven Lived death: Dickens’s rogue glyphs
- Chapter Twelve Dispensing with style
- Select bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
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