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2.2 Charles Dickens and his novels – as an example of literature in realism
Charles Dickens wrote fifteen novels. He also wrote short stories, essays, articles and novellas including articles on each of his novels. Discover how Dickens got his pen name, Boz. Also, get some pointers in case you think you may have a valuable copy of one of Dickens’s works in your attic. Hard Times is unlike the rest of the novels of Charles Dickens in several ways. It’s the shortest published novel by Charles Dickens. Only Hard Times and Great Expectations were originally issued without illustrations. Additionally, Hard Times is the only novel by Dickens not to have scenes set in London. Instead, it takes place in the fictional Coketown.Hard Times was Dickens’s tenth novel. It first appeared in Dickens’s weekly periodical, Household Words. It was published in installments that began in April of 1854 and ran through August of that year. A Christmas Carol. A Christmas Carol, arguably the most popular piece of fiction that Dickens ever wrote, was published in 1843. We’ve got a special page devoted to A Christmas Carol. Once there you can learn about the novel, ask Scrooge a question, test your knowledge of the novella and more.
Barnaby Rudge was actually the first novel that Dickens planned on writing. In 1836 he was going to call it Gabriel Vardon, the Locksmith of London. Circumstances forced him to put off writing it until later. Norrie Espstein, the author of The Friendly Dickens, states, “Barnaby Rudge must be the least-read — and least-attractive — novel in the Dickens canon.” In fact, when Barnaby Rudge was eventually published it wasn’t very well received. John Forrester, a good friend of Dickens, said the novel was structurally flawed. One of the people who read Barnaby Rudge and seemed to like it was Edgar Allan Poe. However, Poe had a few suggestions about Grip, Barnaby’s pet raven. He didn’t think that the raven should be so playful. 13
A few years later Poe wrote about a very solemn raven in his famous poem The Raven. Was Grip the inspiration for the poem? We’ll never know, but some historians believe so. Barnaby Rudge is a historical novel that deals with the Gordon Riots of 1780. In 1778 the British parliament passed the Catholic Relief Act. The act replaced anti-Catholic legislation. Although it did not grant freedom of worship, it allowed Catholics to join the army and purchase land if they took an oath of allegiance. However, this pro-Catholic legislation was not a universally popular change. On June 2nd of 1780, Lord George Gordon led a group of like-minded people to parliament. They wanted the Catholic Relief Act repealed. Violence broke out and spread. Peace wasn’t restored until June 9th. By that time Catholic chapels had been broken into, Newgate Prison was burned and hundreds of people were killed.
Dickens published well over a dozen major novels and novellas, a large number of short stories, including a number of Christmas-themed stories, a handful of plays, and several non-fiction books. Dickens's novels were initially serialized in weekly and monthly magazines, then reprinted in standard book formats. The Pickwick Papers (The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club; monthly serial, April 1836 to November 1837).
Perhaps this is why the novel is filled with disastrous relationships between fathers and sons. Both Barnaby and Hugh are abandoned by their fathers. May pole’s brother, Edward, is not abandoned by their father, Sir John Chester. However, their relationship is not a good one as Sir John firmly discourages Edward from pursuing a relationship with Emma Haredale. Another troubled relationship between father and son can be found between John Willet and his son Joe. John refuses to see Joe as an adult.
However, we can see the list of Dickens’s works.
Oliver Twist (The Adventures of Oliver Twist; monthly serial in Bentley's Miscellany, February 1837 to April 1839)
Nicholas Nickleby (The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby; monthly serial, April 1838 to October 1839)
The Old Curiosity Shop (weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, April 1840 to November 1841)
Barnaby Rudge (Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty; weekly serial in Master Humphrey's Clock, February to November 1841)
A Christmas Carol (A Christmas Carol in Prose: Being a Ghost-story of Christmas; 1843)
Martin Chuzzlewit (The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit; monthly serial, January 1843 to July 1844)
The Chimes (The Chimes: A Goblin Story of Some Bells That Rang an Old Year Out and a New Year In; 1844)
The Cricket on the Hearth (The Cricket on the Hearth: A Fairy Tale of Home; 1845)
The Battle of Life (The Battle of Life: A Love Story; 1846)
Dombey and Son (Dealings with the Firm of Dombey and Son: Wholesale, Retail and for Exportation; monthly serial, October 1846 to April 1848)
The Haunted Man (The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain: A Fancy for Christmas-time; 1848)
David Copperfield (The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery [Which He Never Meant to Publish on Any Account]; monthly serial, May 1849 to November 1850)
Bleak House (monthly serial, March 1852 to September 1853)
Hard Times (Hard Times: For These Times; weekly serial in Household Words, 1 April 1854, to 12 August 1854)
Little Dorrit (monthly serial, December 1855 to June 1857)
A Tale of Two Cities (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 30 April 1859, to 26 November 1859)
Great Expectations (weekly serial in All the Year Round, 1 December 1860 to 3 August 1861)
Our Mutual Friend (monthly serial, May 1864 to November 1865)
The Signal-Man (1866), first published as part of the Mugby Junction collection in the 1866 Christmas edition of All the Year Round.
Edwin Drood (The Mystery of Edwin Drood; monthly serial, April 1870 to September 1870), left unfinished due to Dickens's death14
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