The Mudfog Papers Annotated And Illustrated

*This Book is annotated (it contains a detailed biography of the author). *An active Table of Contents has been added by the publisher for a better customer experience. *This book has been checked and corrected for spelling errors.The Mudfog Papers was written by Charles Dickens and published from 1837 to 1838 in the monthly literary journal Bentley's Miscellany, which he was then editing.The Mudfog Papers relates the proceedings of a fictional society, The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science.

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Mudfog and Other Sketches by Charles Dickens. It was written by Charles Dickens and published from 1837 to 1838 in the monthly Bentley's Miscellany literary journal, which he was later editing. The Mudfog Papers recounts the proceedings of a fictional society, The Mudfog Society for the Advancement of Everything, a Pickwickian parody of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. The latter, founded in York in 1831, was one of the many Victorian scholarly societies dedicated to the advancement of science. Like The Pickwick Papers, The Mudfog Papers affirms its affinity for parliamentary reports, memoirs, and posthumous documents. The series was illustrated by George Cruikshank. The fictional town of Mudfog was based at Chatham in Kent, where Dickens spent part of his youth.When Oliver Twist first appeared in Bentley's Miscellany in February 1837, Mudfog was described by Dickens as the city where Oliver was born and spent his early years, causing Oliver Twist to be related to The Mudfog Papers, but this allusion was removed when the novel was published as a book. Charles Dickens - Charles John Huffam Dickens FRSA (February 7, 1812 - June 9, 1870) was an English writer and social critic.

‘Dickens and America’ has been amply studied, his no less important relationship to Italy much less so, despite his friend Forster's assertion that his long stay in Genoa represented ‘the turning-point of his career.’ This book, arising from a major conference held in Genoa in 2007, attempts to redress the balance, focusing primarily on Dickens's two major writings about Italy—the travel book Pictures from Italy of 1845, and Part Two of his great novel Little Dorrit of 1855–7. It falls into six sections: the first concerns Dickens's enjoyment of leisure for the first time in his life in Italy; the second, his response to the visual attractions of Italy, both natural and artistic; the third, his political stance about Italy in the period of the Risorgimento; the fourth, his preoccupation with death and decay in what he saw and experienced in Italy; the fifth, his representation of ‘Italianness’ in Little Dorrit and elsewhere; and the sixth, his relation to modern and contemporary writers about Italy. It thus aims to fill a vital gap in Dickens studies.