Gender And Madness In The Novels Of Charles Dickens
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Gender And Madness In The Novels Of Charles Dickens
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Author : Marianne Camus
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2004
Gender And Madness In The Novels Of Charles Dickens written by Marianne Camus and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with categories.
Dickens Sexuality And Gender
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Author : Lillian Nayder
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Dickens Sexuality And Gender written by Lillian Nayder 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.
This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and transgressions; the intersections and displacements among gender, class and race; the ties between gender and the body, and among gender, voice and language; his depiction of the homosocial and the homoerotic; and the relation between gender and the law. The essays provide an introduction to the most recent approaches to Dickens's fiction in addition to those now considered classic, draw on queer theory and also feature a variety of methodologies, ranging across feminist, historicist and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation. The collection represents the best of previously published research by Dickens's scholars and illuminates for students and scholars alike the meaning of gender in such novels as The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.
A Companion To Charles Dickens
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Author : David Paroissien
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2008-04-15
A Companion To Charles Dickens written by David Paroissien and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-04-15 with Literary Criticism categories.
A Companion to Charles Dickens concentrates on the historical, ideological, and social forces that defined Dickens’s world. Puts Dickens’s work into its literary, historical, and social contexts Traces the development of Dickens’s career as a journalist and novelist Includes original essays by leading Dickensian scholars on each of Dickens’s fifteen novels Explores a broad range of topics, including criticisms of his novels, the use of history and law in his fiction, language, and the effect of political and social reform Examines Dickens's legacy and surveys the mass of secondary materials that has been generated in response and reverence to his writing
The Reception Of Charles Dickens In Europe
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Author : Michael Hollington
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2013-08-29
The Reception Of Charles Dickens In Europe written by Michael Hollington and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-08-29 with Literary Criticism categories.
The Reception of Charles Dickens in Europe offers a full historical survey of Dickens's reception in all the major European countries and many of the smaller ones, filling a major gap in Dickens scholarship, which has by and large neglected Dickens's fortunes in Europe, and his impact on major European authors and movements. Essays by leading international critics and translators give full attention to cultural changes and fashions, such as the decline of Dickens's fortunes at the end of the nineteenth century in the period of Naturalism and Aestheticism, and the subsequent upswing in the period of Modernism, in part as a consequence of the rise of film in the era of Chaplin and Eisenstein. It will also offer accounts of Dickens's reception in periods of political upheaval and revolution such as during the communist era in Eastern Europe or under fascism in Germany and Italy in particular.
Dissenting Women In Dickens Novels
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Author : Brenda Ayres
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1998-07-30
Dissenting Women In Dickens Novels written by Brenda Ayres and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-07-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Given their pedagogical nature, many Victorian novels are highly politicized; their narratives are filtered through the value schemes, social views, and conscious purposes of their authors. Victorian women were largely expected to dedicate themselves to the social and moral betterment of their families. Women were expected to be soft, meek, quiet, modest, submissive, gentle, patient, and spiritual; men were supposed to be aggressive, assertive, resilient, disciplined, and competitive. These expectations were repeatedly endorsed through the conduct books of the period, which encouraged people to adhere to proper behavior. The Victorian era also viewed fiction as a didactic tool and as a means to propagate morality. Thus novels of the period typically present women as subordinate to men and as angels of the home. Women who conform to the social norms are usually rewarded in these fictitious worlds, whereas women who violate society's standards are often penalized. Certainly the novels of Charles Dickens fall into the larger didactic trend of Victorian fiction, and like other works of the period, his novels overtly support the conventional values of Victorian society. Dickens typically uses descriptive detail to register approval or disapproval of certain women, and these women are rewarded or chastized through his plots. But on a less obvious level, Dickens also challenges the prevailing Victorian attitude toward women. A close look at his works shows that patriarchs do not automatically deserve the respect they command from their privileged social positions. Women—however virtuous—are unable to produce moral or social change, and many women succeed outside the constraints of domesticity. This book provides a penetrating analysis of how Dickens' novels ultimately fail to promote the conventional Victorian behavioral ideal for women and discusses how his works subvert the domestic ideology of the nineteenth century.
Gender And The Body In Charles Dickens S Novels Of The 1850s
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Author : Laura Inman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Gender And The Body In Charles Dickens S Novels Of The 1850s written by Laura Inman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with categories.
Charles Dickens And The Image Of Woman
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Author : David Holbrook
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1993-02
Charles Dickens And The Image Of Woman written by David Holbrook and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1993-02 with Literary Criticism categories.
Holbrook (English, Cambridge U.) explains how Dickens dealt with the Victorian English problem of merging the ideal and the libidinous woman, by delighting in father-daughter and other non- sexual relationships between genders; and how his dread of sexual intercourse deformed his dealings with all his female characters. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
In And Out
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Author : Sophie Aymes-Stokes
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Release Date : 2012-04-25
In And Out written by Sophie Aymes-Stokes and has been published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-25 with History categories.
The aim of the book is twofold: first, to provide an overview of the critical history of eccentricity; and secondly to conceptualise a notion that is often presented as a defining feature of the English “character”. It addresses the key issues raised by eccentricity and brings out interdisciplinary links between science, politics, literature and the arts: the sources and dissemination of the concept of eccentricity; its relationship with the English national character as historical and ideological constructs; the structural need for variation and divergence within accepted social norms; the paradoxical status of the eccentric as outsider – when eccentricity is transgressive and alienating – and as insider – eccentricity as socially acceptable deviation. Fundamentally eccentricity is a normative notion: being ex-centred enables eccentrics to delineate and negotiate boundaries between the margins and the centre, the canon and the norm. The contributors question the links between eccentricity, diversity and originality; the value of individual experience and character; and as a corollary, the struggle to retain individuality against increasing standardization, commoditisation and channelling within the normative discourse of normality. Eccentricity as display and performance is also tackled in several chapters, which focus on reception, image and (self)-representation, exhibition and voyeurism.
Remov D From Human Eyes Madness And Poetry 1676 1774
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Author : Natali, Ilaria
language : en
Publisher: Firenze University Press
Release Date : 2016-08-30
Remov D From Human Eyes Madness And Poetry 1676 1774 written by Natali, Ilaria and has been published by Firenze University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-08-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
The years 1676 and 1774 marked two turning points in the social and legal treatment of madness in England. In 1676, London’s Bethlehem Hospital expanded in grand new premises, and in 1774 the Madhouses Act attempted to limit confinement of the insane. This study explores almost a century of the English history of madness through the texts of five poets who were considered mentally troubled according to contemporary standards: James Carkesse, Anne Finch, William Collins, Christopher Smart and William Cowper were hospitalized, sequestered or exiled from society. Their works cope with representations of insanity, medical definitions or practices, imputed illness, and the judging eye of the ‘sane other’, shedding new light on the dis/continuities in the notion of madness of this period.
Love S Madness
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Author : Helen Small
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 1996
Love S Madness written by Helen Small and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with English fiction categories.
Love's Madness is an important new contribution to the interdisciplinary study of insanity. Focusing on the figure of the love-mad woman, it presents a significant reassessment of the ways in which British medical writers and novelists of the nineteenth century thought about madness, femininity, and narrative convention. The book centers around studies of novels by Jane Austen, Sir Walter Scott, Charlotte Bront , Wilkie Collins, and Charles Dickens, as well as of previously neglected writings by Charles Maturin, Lady Caroline Lamb, and Edward Bulwer-Lytton, among others.