Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity

ISBN-13: 9781032088341 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 220 str.

Joshua Gooch

Opis

In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens’s novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life’s precariousness under capitalism.

Spis treści

Introduction: What a thing it is to have Power

One: From Sentiment to Affect: Toward a Theory of Affective Form

Two: Oliver Twist: Domination, Violence, and the End of Slavery

Three: The Old Curiosity Shop: Love, Anxiety, and Inheritance

Four: David Copperfield: Trust, Surprise, and the Call Loan System

Five: Great Expectations: Shame, Suspense, and the Volunteer Forces

Conclusion: Dickensian Affects in the Future Tense

O autorze

Joshua Gooch　is an Associate Professor of English at D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies. His monograph　The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy　(New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) examines the Victorian novel’s role in representing and shaping the service sector’s emergence.