• ISBN13: 9781772442823
• Binding: Paperback
• Subject: N/A
• Publisher: Rock's Mills Press
• Publisher Imprint: Rock's Mills Press
• Publication Date: June 1, 2023
• Pages: 24
• Original Price: USD 4.99
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 32 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh

Professor Hair draws on a lifetime of scholarship and teaching in this brief yet insightful introduction to Charles Dickens's novel Little Dorrit. Both readers coming to the novel for the first time and those returning to it will find their enjoyment and understanding enhanced by his analysis of how Dickens uses character, plot and atmosphere to drive home his message of social protest. And that message is as relevant today as it was when Little Dorrit was first published more than a century and a half ago, for in the novel (as Hair points out) "Dickens is exposing and attacking that most difficult of social ills to define precisely, the one that people sometimes refer to as the 'system'... 'Nobody's fault' was Dickens's original title for the novel, and it is of course ironic: something that is 'nobody's fault' is everybody's fault."

Hair, Donald S.: - Donald S. Hair is professor emeritus in the Department of English and Writing Studies at Western University in London, Ont. A specialist in Victorian literature, he is the author of a number of other books, including Browning's Experiments with Genre, Robert Browning's Language, Domestic and Heroic in Tennyson's Poetry, Tennyson's Language, The Dramatic Imagination of Robert Browning: A Literary Life (with Richard S. Kennedy), and Fresh Strange Music: Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Language. Dr. Hair's Souwesto Lives---a social history of his family and the region of southwestern Ontario in which they settled---and his memoir A Professor's Life are both published by Rock's Mills Press. He was the recipient of the Edward G. Pleva Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2001-02 as well as the OCUFA Teaching and Academic Librarianship Award in 1991.