Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

ISBN-13: 9781138804456 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 1 str.

Michael Hollington;?Abar;?Abar

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First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens' work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers. The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key aspects that particularly impacted on Dickens' imagination: popular theatre (especially pantomime), caricature, and the tradition of the Gothic novel.

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Preface;  Acknowledgements;  1. The Grotesque Tradition, Ancient and Modern  2. The Romance of Real Life: Sketches by Boz and Pickwick Papers  3. ‘They always Die when I’m at Meals’: Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby  4. The Old Curiosity Shop and The New Curiosity Shop  5. The Grotesque in History: Barnaby Rudge and A Tale of Two Cities  6. The Grotesque in America: American Notes and Martin Chuzzlewit  7. The New Picturesque: Pictures from Italy and Little Dorrit  8. Narrative Perspective and the Grotesque: Master Humphrey’s Clock, The Christmas Books and The Uncommercial Traveller  9. The Child’s Perception of the Grotesque: Dombey and Son and David Copperfield  10. Ironic Infernos: Bleak House, Hard Times and Ruskin’s Conception of the Grotesque  11. The Grotesque and Tragicomedy: Great Expectations  12. Opium and the Grotesque: Our Mutual Friend and Edwin Drood;  Bibliography;  Index of Names;  Index of Concepts and Themes

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Michael Hollington