San Antonio College Library

By means of a detailed critical analysis of eight novels, this study traces Dicken's development as an artist. The author discusses novels which he considers to be representative of various stages in Dicken's development, paying particular to Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend, which his view constitute one of the supreme achievements in the English novel of the nineteenth century. -- Publisher description.

Through an investigation of the body and its oppression by the church, the medical profession and the state, this book reveals the actual horrors lying beneath fictional horror in settings as diverse as the monastic community, slave plantation, operating theatre, Jewish ghetto and battlefield trench. The book provides original readings of canonical Gothic literary and film texts including The Castle of Otranto, The Monk, Frankenstein, Dracula and...