Charles Dickens

by Connor; STEVEN

• ISBN13: 9780582210158
• ISBN10: 0582210151
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 1996-06-21
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades.

Table of Contents

Introduction - dead or alive, from force to form, authorship and authority, meaning, identity and language, discourse and power, economy and excess, after Dickens

Repitition, Repression and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations

Dicken's Bleak House

The Bad Faith of Pip's Bad Faith: Deconstructing Great Expectations

Heteroglossia in the Novel: Little Dorrit

Polyphony and Problematic in Hard Times

Prison-Bound: Dickens and Foucault Great Expectations

Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family and Bleak House

Ideology and Literary Form: Charles Dickens

Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times and Feminine Discourses

Homophobia, Misogyny and Capital: Our Mutual Friend

Repression and Representation: Dicken's General Economy, Our Mutual Friend

Steven Connor

Space, Place and the Body of Riot in Barnaby Rudge

Further Reading

Index

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