Explores Dickens's attitudes towards and relationships with his country, drawing on a wide range of his fiction, journalism, speeches and correspondence.

Dickens on England and the English

Andrews, Malcolm

Barnes&Noble Books

What is landscape? How does it differ from 'land'? Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is 'nature'? Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the fascinating and challenging issues of landscape as art. The books broad sweep covers the full, rich spectrum of landscape art, including painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. Artistic issues are investigated in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context. Clear explanations and beautiful illustrations convey to the reader the idea of landscape as an experience in which everyone is creatively involved. andscape and Western Art provides an enlightening and comprehensive critical overview of landscape art.

Landscape and Western Art (Oxford History of Art Series)

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

What is landscape? How does it differ from "land?" Does landscape always imply something to be pictured, a scene? When and why did we begin to cherish images of nature? What is "nature?" Is it everything that isn't art, or artifact? By addressing these and many other questions, Landscape and Western Art explores the myriad ideas and images of the natural world in Western art since the Renaissance. Implying that land is the raw material, and that art is created by turning land into landscape, which then becomes art, author Malcolm Andrews takes the reader on a thematic tour of the fascinating and challenging issues of landscape as art. The books broad sweep covers the full, rich spectrum of landscape art, including painting, gardening, panorama, poetry, photography, and art. Artistic issues are investigated in connection with Western cultural movements, and within a full international and historical context. Clear explanations and beautiful illustrations convey to the reader the idea of landscape as an experience in which everyone is creatively involved. Landscape and Western Art provides an enlightening and comprehensive critical overview of landscape art.

Landscape and Western Art (Oxford History of Art)

Written by scholars at the forefront of new thinking, many of whom are rising stars in their fields, the Oxford History of Art series offers substantial and innovative texts that clarify, illuminate, and debate the critical issues at the heart of art history today. Providing a fresh new look at art that moves away from traditional elitist approaches, the series makes use of new research and methodologies, a well as newly accessible and non-canonical works to offer comprehensive coverage of the art world. Lavishly illustrated and superbly designed, the Oxford History of Art brings new substance and verve to the exciting and ubiquitous world of art. Includes, European Architecture 1750-1890, Medieval Architecture, Modern Architecture, Architecture in the United States, and Landscape and Western Architecture.

Oxford History of Art Series - Architecture Set: 5-volume set

Upton, Dell

Bergdoll, Barry

Coldstream, Nicola

Colquhoun, Alan

Oxford University Press, USA

How does Dickens make his readers laugh? What is the distinctive character of Dickensian humor? These are the questions explored in this book on a topic that has been strangely neglected in critical studies over the last half century. Dickens's friend and biographer John Forster declared that "[Dickens's] leading quality was Humor."' At the end of Dickens's career he was acclaimed as "the greatest English Humorist since Shakespeare's time." In 1971 the critic Philip Collins surveyed recent decades of Dickens criticism and asked "from how many discussions of Dickens in the learned journals would one ever guess that (as Dickens himself thought) humor was his leading quality, his highest faculty?" Forty years later, that rhetorical question has lost none of its force. Why? Perhaps Dickens's genius as a humorist is simply taken for granted, and critics prefer to turn to his other achievements; or perhaps humor is too hard to analyze without spoiling the fun? Whatever the reason, there has been very little by way of sustained critical investigation into what for most people has constituted Dickens's special claim to greatness. This book is framed as a series of essays examining and reflecting on Dickens's techniques for making us laugh. How is it that some written incident, or speech, or narrative "aside" can fire off the page into the reader's conciousness and jolt him or her into a smile, a giggle, or a hearty laugh? That is the core question here. His first novel, Pickwick Papers, was acclaimed at the time as having "opened a fresh vein of humor" in English literature: what was the social nature of the humour that established this trademark "Dickensian" method of making people laugh? And how many kinds of laughter are there in Dickens? What made Dickens himself laugh? Victorian and contemporary theories of laughter can provide useful insights into these processes--incongruity theory or the "relief" theory of laughter, laughter's contagiousness (laughter as a "social glue"'), the art of comic timing, the neuroscience of laughter. These and other ideas are brought into play in this short book, which considers not only Dickens's novels but also his letters and journalism. And to that end there are copious quotations. The aim of the book is to make readers laugh and also to prompt them to reflect their laughter. It should have an interest not only for Dickensians but for anyone curious about the nature of laughter and how it is triggered.

Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour

Humor & Entertainment

Humor

Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called "this new expression of the meaning of my books". "I shall tear myself to pieces", he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions.

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Charles Dickens had three professional careers: novelist, journalist and public Reader. That third career has seldom been given the serious attention it deserved. For the last 12 years of his life he toured Britain and America giving 2-hour readings from his work to audiences of over two thousand. These readings were highly dramatic performances in which Dickens's great gift for mimicry enabled him to represent the looks and voices of his characters, to the point where audiences forgot they were watching Charles Dickens. His novels came alive on the platform: at the end of a reading, it seemed to many that a whole society had broken up rather than that a solitary recitalist had concluded. This book tries to recreate, in greater detail than hitherto, the sense of how those readings were performed and how they were received, how Dickens devised his stage set and tailored his books to make them into performance scripts, how he conducted his reading tours all around the country and developed a quite extraordinary rapport with his listeners. No single study of this late career of Dickens has drawn to such an extent on contemporary witnesses to the readings as well as tried to assess in some depth the significance of what Dickens called "this new expression of the meaning of my books." "I shall tear myself to pieces," he said as he waited eagerly to go on stage for his performance, and that is ironically what he did, in ways he perhaps had not quite intended: he fractured into dozens of different characters up there on the platform, and as he thus tore himself to pieces his health collapsed irretrievably under the pressures he put upon himself to achieve these masterly illusions.

Literature & Fiction

British & Irish

Bondi Icebergs: An Australian Icon

B. B. International

The search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism, in Britain, 1760-1800.

The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism, in Britain, 1760-1800

History

Americas

Stanford Univ Pr

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Dickens on England and the English

Landscape and Western Art (Oxford History of Art Series)

Landscape and Western Art (Oxford History of Art)

Oxford History of Art Series - Architecture Set: 5-volume set

Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves: Dickens and the Public Readings

Dickensian Laughter: Essays on Dickens and Humour

Bondi Icebergs: An Australian Icon

The Search for the Picturesque: Landscape Aesthetics and Tourism, in Britain, 1760-1800