Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty

by Charles Dickens

Overview

The title character of Barnaby Rudge, a feeble minded individual, is a passive actor who is swept along by events. Based on Gordon Riots of June 1780, the riots reach a climax in the storming and destruction of the Newgate Prison. This work is famous for its descriptions of mob violence which shows Dickens' descriptive abilities. First published in 1841.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781775417231
Publisher:	The Floating Press
Publication date:	02/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	818 KB

About the Author

Jon Mee and Iain McCalman are joint editors ofAn Oxford Companion to the Romantic Age (1999).

Date of Birth:

February 7, 1812

Date of Death:

June 18, 1870

Place of Birth:

Portsmouth, England

Place of Death:

Gad's Hill, Kent, England

Education:

Home-schooling; attended Dame School at Chatham briefly and Wellington

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgements	vi
	Introduction	vii
	Note on the Text	xxv
	Note on the Illustrations	xxvi
	Select Bibliography	xxx
	A Chronology of Charles Dickens	xxxv
	Map: London at the time of the Gordon Riots, 1780	xlviii
	Preface 1841	3
	Preface 1849	5
	Barnaby Rudge	9
Appendix A	The Gordon Riots	662
Appendix B	Historical Sources and Contemporary Contexts	667
Appendix C	Dickens and Scott	673
	Explanatory Notes	677