Dickens And Modernity
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Dickens And Modernity
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Author : Juliet John
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2012
Dickens And Modernity written by Juliet John and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Literary Collections categories.
Essays exploring the ways in which Dickens' vision is both so much of its time, and yet has so much resonance for today. The scale of the 2012 bicentenary celebrations of Dickens's birth is testimony to his status as one of the most globally popular literary authors the world has ever seen. Yet Dickens has also become associated in the public imagination with a particular version of the Victorian past and with respectability. His continued cultural prominence and the "brand recognition" achieved by his image and images suggest that his vision reaches out beyond the Victorianperiod. Yet what is the relationship between Dickens and the modern world? Do his works offer a consoling version of the past or are they attuned to that state of uncertainty and instability we associate with the nebulous but resonant concept of modernity? This volume positions Dickens as both a literary and a cultural icon with a complex relationship to the cultural landscape in his own period and since. It seeks to demonstrate that oppositions which have pervaded approaches to Dickens - Victorian vs modern, artist vs entertainer, culture vs commerce - are false, by exploring the diversity and multiplicity of Dickens's textual and extra-textual lives. A specially commissioned Afterword by Florian Schweizer, Director of the Dickens 2012 celebrations, offers a fascinating insight into the shaping of this year-long public programme of commemoration of Dickens. Like the volume as a whole, it asks us toconsider the nature of our connection with "this quintessentially Victorian writer" and what it is about Dickens that still appeals to people around the world. Professor Juliet John holds the Hildred Carlile Chair of English Literature, Royal Holloway, University of London. Contributors: Jay Clayton, Holly Furneaux, John Drew, Michaela Mahlberg, Juliet John, Michael Hollington, Joss Marsh, Carrie Sickmann, Kim Edwardes Keates, DominicRainsford, Florian Schweizer
Charles Dickens Modernism Modernity
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Author : Christine Huguet
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2014
Charles Dickens Modernism Modernity written by Christine Huguet and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014 with categories.
Dickens And Benjamin
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Author : Gillian Piggott
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-04-15
Dickens And Benjamin written by Gillian Piggott and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Gillian Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and that both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect upon experience. Piggott juxtaposes her exploration of Benjamin's ideas on allegory and messianism with an examination of Dickens's The Old Curiosity Shop, arguing that both writers proffer a melancholy vision of a world devoid of space and time for religious experience, a state of affairs they associate with the onset of industrial capitalism. In Benjamin's The Arcades Project and Dickens's Sketches by Boz and Tale of Two Cities, among other works, the authors converge in their hugely influential treatments of the city as a site of perambulation, creativity, memory, and autobiography. At the same time, both authors relate to the vertiginous, mutable, fast-paced nature of city life as involving a concomitant change in the structure of experience, an alteration that can be understood as a reduction in the capacity to experience fully. Piggott's persuasive analyses enable a reading of Dickens as part of a European, particularly a German, tradition of thinkers and writers of industrialization and modernity. For both Dickens and Benjamin, truth appears only in moments of revelation, in fragments of modernity.
Bleak House
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Author : Jeremy Tambling
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Release Date : 1998
Bleak House written by Jeremy Tambling and has been published by Palgrave MacMillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with England categories.
It is in Bleak House that Dickens the realist and Dickens the modernist are often thought to meet. The essays collected here embody some of the approaches to Dickens, using Marxist, deconstructive, feminist and post-structuralist methods.
Dickens And The City
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Author : Jeremy Tambling
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Dickens And The City written by Jeremy Tambling and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Dickens's relationship to cities is part of his modernity and his enduring fascination. How he thought about, grasped and conceptualised the rapidly expanding and anonymous urban scene are all fascinating aspects of a critical debate which, starting virtually from Dickens's own time, has become more and more active and questioning of the significance of that new thing, the unknown and unknowable, city. Although Dickens was influenced by several European and American cities, the most significant city for Dickens was London, the city he knew as a boy in the 1820s and which developed in his lifetime to become the finance and imperial capital of the nineteenth-century. His sense of London as monumental and fashionable, modern and anachronistic, has generated a large number of writings and critical approaches: Marxist, sociological, psychoanalytic and deconstructive. Dickens looks at the city from several aspects: as a place bringing together poverty and riches; as the place of the new and of chance and coincidence, and of secret lives exposed by the special figure of the detective. Another crucial area of study is the relationship of the city to women, and women's place in the city, as well as the way Dickens's London matches up with other visual representations. This anthology of criticism surveys the field and is a major contribution to the study of cities, city culture, modernity and Dickens. It brings together key previously published articles and essays and features a comprehensive bibliography of work which scholars can continue to explore.
The Reenchantment Of Nineteenth Century Fiction
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Author : D. Payne
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2005-05-23
The Reenchantment Of Nineteenth Century Fiction written by D. Payne and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-05-23 with History categories.
An ambitious weave of ideological, literary, and commodity history, The Reenchantment of Nineteenth-Century Fiction shows how Dickens, Thackeray, and George Eliot sacralized Victorian modernity in two contradictory ways: by incarnating their moment as one of transcendent development, and by reenacting bloody rituals from a fading Protestant past. Both the magnitude and the brevity of their success make these works exemplary for our own era, caught between the archaic gods of traditional religion and the still-mysterious ones of market society.
Dickens Violence And The Modern State
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Author : J. Tambling
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 1995-09-26
Dickens Violence And The Modern State written by J. Tambling and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-26 with Fiction categories.
In a radical reassessment of one of the greatest writers of all time, Dickens, Violence and the Modern State draws on the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, in addition to Julia Kristeva and Edward Said, to situate Dickens within the discourses circulating within his society - in particular those associated with modernity. Focussing on Dickens's novels written after 1848, his relationship to modernity can be seen in his treatment of violence, seen in two forms in his writing: that of the state (in the rationalising powers of Victorian bourgeois modernisation), and physical violence, as portrayed in Dickens's criminals and interest in masochism and corpses.
Charles Dickens Updated Edition
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Author : Harold Bloom
language : en
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Release Date : 2009
Charles Dickens Updated Edition written by Harold Bloom and has been published by Infobase Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with English literature categories.
Presents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.
Modern Romance And Transformations Of The Novel
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Author : Ian Duncan
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1992-10-30
Modern Romance And Transformations Of The Novel written by Ian Duncan and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992-10-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Modern Romance examines the relationship between the revival of romance form and the ascendancy of the novel in British literary culture, from 1760 to 1850. The revival of romance as the literary embodiment of a national cultural identity provided a metaphor for the 'authenticity' of the novel itself, set against the changing formations of modern life. The material conditions, cultural status and formal repertoire of prose fiction were given a canonical transformation, leading to the form's nineteenth-century heyday, in Scott's Waverley novels. Ian Duncan's illuminating and innovative study begins with the first identification of modern prose fiction with romance form in the late eighteenth-century Gothic novel, and moves through Scott's highly influential dialectical blend of romance and history, to his relations with his successor in the role of national author, Charles Dickens.
Dickens
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Author : A. E. Dyson
language : en
Publisher: Palgrave
Release Date : 1968
Dickens written by A. E. Dyson and has been published by Palgrave this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1968 with Literary Criticism categories.