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Annotated bibliographies

Benziman, Galia. "Oliver Twist." The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens, 2018, pp. 104-118.

https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743415.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780198743415

The peer reviewed journal gives an inclusive and an updated assortment on Dicken’s works and life. It was published in 2018 and comprises original articles of all Dicken’s publications and new contemplations of his contexts; political, economic, social, technical, spiritual and profitable. The main themes in this article are the topos’ of a homeless child, and Oliver Twist’s urban aesthetic. The author has shown Oliver’s London to be a place of estrangement, danger, and filth, different from the countryside paradise. With this twofold, the child is comprehended as a symbol of virtue, invulnerability demeaning impact of the urban scenery.

The author is an Associate Professor in English at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He specializes in British Literature of the long nineteenth century. Benziman uses this article talk about the new ways on his descriptions of environmental pollution, families and developments. How Dicken’s treats gender, his mastery of style in all its sorts and varieties, his choice of moves and staging are all encompassed in the inspiring review. His comprehension of the British history, colonization and realm, his country and other nations, selfhood and difference, is explained in this journal in an easier way to understand and the topics are deeply pertinent to universal modernism.

This journal will be useful for the current research since it discusses the town experience as a prerequisite of formation and education, impacting on a person’s growth. The journal will help in re-evaluating Oliver’s liberty of choice and test his dispute as a still, stranded hostage in other people’s hands. The topics offered by the article are easy to understand and deeply applicable to global modernism.

Birch, Dinah. "Oliver Twist." The Oxford Companion to English Literature, 7th ed., Oxford UP, 2009, global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-companion-to-english-literature-9780192806871?cc=us&lang=en&.

This article is concentrates on English-language and includes writers from Scotland, Ireland, Wales and countries form the former British Empire. It is one of the most massive translation projects in the history of English. All entries in this article have been reviewed and particulars of new works, criticism, and biographies have been brought right up to date. The article has functional webpages for instance the Authors of Britain page created in Spring 2012. The author of this article Dinah Birch is a professor of English Literature in the University of Liverpool. Based on the popular Oxford Companion to English Literature, this work is requisite, and acts a compressed guide for every feature of English Literature. The entries of this work array from transitory documentations of imaginary characters to charming and educational articles which contain topics such as important literary works, key authors, and main fields in works of fiction. These topics will be used in the current research to build on the educational part of the novel Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens.

The article contains literary history which is useful as English teachers can use it to teach single works, scholars in small fields. It is simple, such that it helps university teachers to have an insight of classical, European, or biblical literature. The article supports the current research since it gives a succession of opinions on the relations between literatures and their times, legendary works, and the present and the past.

Brown, Mark. "Victorian Murder That Charles Dickens Used in Oliver Twist." The Guardian, 22 Feb. 2018, www.theguardian.com/books/2009/apr/11/dickens-oliver-twist-eliza-grimwood-murder. Accessed 16 Mar. 2020.

The article from online newspaper contains the real-life scene of how Oliver Twist murders a prostitute, Nancy. This act has been overlooked by most scholars and the film editions do not include it in its full, unexpurgated revulsion. However, Charles Dickens doe in his work. The author of this journal describes the scene as betrayal, when Nancy is confronted by Sikes in her bed, which is not something that is common in the vivacious West End Musical. Nancy pleas are not heard, and she is murdered.

Mark brown is the Guardian’s art correspondent and a journalist. He has combined these themes to paint a picture of the fallen woman (Nancy). He has used the third person all-knowing in his narration and throughout the novel, the author assumes dissimilar viewpoints of characters. His use of sarcastic tone in particular moments captivates the minds of readers and makes them want to read more of the article, as well as the novel. This journal is relevant in the current research as it expounds on themes such as authority, crime, stereotyping, and power. For instance, the way the author has used the themes of power to show how it affects the way people view the characters in Dickens’ novel.

Additionally, the author has uncovered what other scholars have not noted, since he incorporated and exhibited the act of one of the most dreadful and disreputable of all the nineteenth century murders, that of Eliza Grimwood. The article is supported by the fact that it provides evidence which is compelling that Dickens was thinking about Grimwood. Eliza, just like Nancy, was dressed in bed, and both ladies were forced on their knees by their murderers. These similarities make the article relevant in analyzing the novel Oliver Twist, because it is a fiction based on fact.

Napolitano, Marc. "Setting the Stage: Oliver Twist, Lionel Bart, and Cultural Contexts." Oliver!, 2014, pp. 9-43, books.google.co.ke/books?id=OBRCBAAAQBAJ&pg=PR7&lpg=PR7&dq=Setting+the+Stage:+Oliver+Twist,+Lionel+Bart,+and+Cultural+Contexts&source=bl&ots=FAPyXkpfeh&sig=ACfU3U3FFFYkPP0PyN8M9pKhIUlZt26E3g&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjQqMHO-J_oAhVJ6uAKHb_sCHcQ6AEwAXoECAoQAQ#v=onepage&q=Setting%20the%20Stage%3A%20Oliver%20Twist%2C%20Lionel%20Bart%2C%20and%20Cultural%20Contexts&f=false.

Napolitano, in the prologue of his book, focusses on the personal roots of the novel Oliver Twist. He recreates the complex profile of Bart’s play, from its primary initiation as a modern musical stimulated by a wanted picture through its development into a genuine Dickensian edition which elevates the English musical auditorium to another dramatic level. This reveals his Napolitano’s love for Dicken’s. The author includes Lionel Bart who is a renowned English musical. The musical holds the position of the most noteworthy English musical published in the golden era of the Broadway musical, and gives the full account of the origin and bequest of Lionel Bart. The book is based on Oliver’s impressive welcome in England, as the community hyped the musical’s Englishness with a patriotic enthusiasm.

Napolitano is an assistant professor of English in the United States Military Academy, West Point, whose work was published in 2014 by Oxford University Press, and is one of the most recent editions. His work is relevant in the current research since it evaluates Oliver’s importance which is a version of Dicken’s novel. It changes the artistic insight of Dicken’s novel; thus, it remains to be among the most significant Dickensian editions. The book primarily explains the basics of Dicken’s novels which makes his works more suitable sources for the current research. The article will be used to give a new breakdown of the show’s influence on the artistic insight of Charles Dickens and his writings, since it discloses many amazing features of the musical’s progress.

Persulessy, Sylvia I., et al. "Social Values in Charles Dickens’s Novel “Oliver Twist”." Advances in Language and Literary Studies, vol. 9, no. 5, 2018, p. 136. https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ1199033.pdf

The peer review focuses on getting deep understanding about the social values in the novels Oliver Twist. The research is qualitative and employs content analysis technique. The peer review shows the societal values present and defined in the novel “Oliver Twist”, which are described using the basic construction of the novel by the text citation. the peer review talks about the social problems that people face in their daily lives and paints a much more realistic picture of social life. It reveals how learning appreciation has an important role in helping the young generation to know the difference between the good and the bad things.

Moreover, the journal is written by qualified authors, such as Sylvia Persulessy, who is a doctoral student of Applied Linguistic, Postgraduate of Universitas Negeri Jakarta, Indonesia. The journal helps in the current research by building on themes such as responsibility, love, and harmony of life. The account of the social values in the story illustrate the cost of the society life is about the connection between human and every day life. These values can be adopted in the research to show the society what is worthy, inspirational, true, and good to exercise.

Sommers, Michael. "A Dickens Classic for the Ages." The New York Times - Breaking News, World News & Multimedia, 30 Sept. 2012, www.nytimes.com/2012/09/30/nyregion/a-review-of-charles-dickenss-oliver-twist-in-madison.html?searchResultPosition=6 .

Oliver Twist’s impact is markedly pronounced in Michael Sommer’s article in relations to social hypocrisy, violence, as well as poverty. A masterpiece and a forceful reminder to those that have ever been misunderstood or treated coldly. The author of the article is a prolific visual artist and actor whose work has been a beacon of design in theatre arts. He was significantly featured in the movies: Bandits, Chance, and Sense 8 produced in 2001, 2016, and 2015 respectively.

The resource is highly credible because the author is trained in matters visual arts and the article reviews Charles Dicken’s Oliver Twist in some theatre production majorly figuring the very themes original Oliver Twist’s featured. Also, the article paints a correct picture of the literary and thematic concerns commonplace in Oliver Twist to invoke the audiences that happen to be victims of bullying same Oliver was. The authenticity, accuracy, purpose of the text in relation to Oliver Twist’s influence is above reproach. Despite that act took place in 2004, the featured aspects add essential literary insight to the current research topic (Oliver Twist influence).

The information on this article will shapes the topical issues in the current research in a myriad of ways, such as provision of comparative analysis on characterization, thematic aspects, as well as the style with which Charles Dickens portrays in his writing. On the other hand, the article will also aid in a review of textual analysis to unearth what is not said and ought to be said through visual illustration.