Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View

ISBN-13: 9780333487082 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 152 str.

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Opis

Dickens's social concern has always been recognized as important to his fiction, but this is the first study to focus specifically upon the representation of class consciousness in his novels. Dr Morris's detailed research on influential Victorian journals demonstrates the inherently dialogic quality of Dickens's writing - the continuous interaction between the language of his texts and the language of class articulated in the era. This re-articulation of the political contemporaneity of the novels reveals the marginal perspective they contain and offers new insight into the developing rhetorics of competitive individualism, class interpellation, and control of urban discontent.

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements - Note on Editions - Introduction: From Margin to Centre - PART 1: STRATEGIES OF SURVIVAL - The Early Novels: Laughter - Martin Chuzzlewit: Anger - PART 2: MECHANISMS OF SUBMISSION - David Copperfield: Alienated Writer - Bleak House: Alienated Readers - PART 3: CONTAINMENT OF DISCONTENT - Great Expectations: A Bought Self - Our Mutual Friend: The Taught Self - Afterword - Notes - Bibliography - Index

O autorze

PAM MORRIS