On Anachronism argues that anachronism is basic to all literature and all history and further explores it in film and in music, and that it changes perceptions of time. -- .
This study of Nicholas Nickleby takes the Dickens novel which is perhaps the least critically discussed, though it is very popular, and examines its appeal and its significance, and finds it one of the most rewarding and powerful of Dickens’s texts.
Jeremy Tambling offers students a concise history and critical commentary on ‘allegory’ from its prominence in Medieval and Renaissance literature through to the Romantic era and up to the present day.
Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare.