Barnaby Rudge A Historical Mystery of the Gordon Riots, Mob Violence, and Coming of Age in Eighteenth-Century London
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Altersempfehlung
ab 9 Jahr(e)
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CopycatSeitenzahl
392
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2/15,2/22,9 cm
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546 g
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN
978-80-285-2424-1
Set amid the anti-Catholic Gordon Riots of 1780, Charles Dickens's Barnaby Rudge is a historical novel that fuses public upheaval with domestic mystery. The story follows the innocent Barnaby, his raven Grip, and a cast of households bound by long-buried crime, inheritance, and revenge. Dickens combines melodramatic plotting with sharply observed social detail, moving from village life to the terrifying spectacle of mob violence in London. Written in the wake of Scott's historical fiction yet unmistakably Dickensian in its vivid characters and moral urgency, the novel examines how private wrongs and collective passions feed one another. By the time he wrote Barnaby Rudge, Dickens was already celebrated for his mastery of urban life, popular speech, and social criticism. His deep interest in crime, punishment, and the psychology of crowds-nourished by journalism, reformist concerns, and keen observation of London's streets-finds one of its fullest early expressions here. The novel also reveals his fascination with the unstable boundary between innocence and culpability, embodied in Barnaby himself. This is a rewarding book for readers interested in Dickens beyond the classroom staples. It will especially appeal to those drawn to historical fiction, crowd politics, and the darker energies of nineteenth-century narrative.
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