Dickens and Creativity

Charles Dickens's experience and imagining of creativity is at the heart of his self-awareness subject-matter and narrative. His intelligence works intuitively rather than conceptually and ideas about imagination often emerge informally in personal letters and implicitly through characters language and story. His self-analysis and reflexive tendency are embedded in his styles and forms of narrative and dialogue images of normality madness extremity subversion and disorder poetry and inter-textuality anticipating and shaping the languages of modernism influencing James Joyce and Virginia Woolf as well as traditionalists like H.G. Wells and Evelyn Waugh. <br/>Discussing Dickens's novels and some of his letters sketches essays and stories Barbara Hardy offers a fascinating demonstration of creativity.