Dickens And Benjamin

Author : Gillian Piggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151234

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Dickens and Benjamin by Gillian Piggott Pdf

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.

Author : Gillian Piggott
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317151241

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Dickens and Benjamin by Gillian Piggott Pdf

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.

Author : Hazel Mackenzie,Ben Winyard
Publisher : Legend Press Ltd
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781908684202

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Charles Dickens and the Mid-Victorian Press, 1850-1870 by Hazel Mackenzie,Ben Winyard Pdf

Critical analysis of the magazines established and edited by Charles Dickens.

Author : Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog
Publisher : Douglas & McIntyre
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2018-09-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781771622035

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The Cowkeeper's Wish by Tracy Kasaboski,Kristen den Hartog Pdf

In the 1840s, a young cowkeeper and his wife arrive in London, England, having walked from coastal Wales with their cattle. They hope to escape poverty, but instead they plunge deeper into it, and the family, ensconced in one of London’s “black holes,” remains mired there for generations. The Cowkeeper’s Wish follows the couple’s descendants in and out of slum housing, bleak workhouses and insane asylums, through tragic deaths, marital strife and war. Nearly a hundred years later, their great-granddaughter finds herself in an altogether different London, in southern Ontario. In The Cowkeeper’s Wish, Kristen den Hartog and Tracy Kasaboski trace their ancestors’ path to Canada, using a single family’s saga to give meaningful context to a fascinating period in history—Victorian and then Edwardian England, the First World War and the Depression. Beginning with little more than enthusiasm, a collection of yellowed photographs and a family tree, the sisters scoured archives and old newspapers, tracked down streets, pubs and factories that no longer exist, and searched out secrets buried in crumbling ledgers, building on the fragments that remained of family tales. While this family story is distinct, it is also typical, and so all the more worth telling. As a working-class chronicle stitched into history, The Cowkeeper’s Wish offers a vibrant, absorbing look at the past that will captivate genealogy enthusiasts and readers of history alike.

Author : Jeremy Tambling
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351944472

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Dickens and the City by Jeremy Tambling Pdf

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.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433071562841

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The Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013239119

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The Works of Charles Dickens ...: Pickwick papers by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 848 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780191061110

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The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens by Robert L. Patten,John O. Jordan,Catherine Waters Pdf

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1868
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NYPL:33433076083439

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The Works of Charles Dickens in Thirty-four [i.e. Thirty-eight] Volumes by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1899
Category : English fiction
ISBN : NYPL:33433112023662

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The Works of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2012-11-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780801467011

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Knowing Dickens by Rosemarie Bodenheimer Pdf

In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection—notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to negotiate the ground between knowing and telling, revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself—the extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected himself in his fictions—and how well we can know him. Knowing Dickens is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work, Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 544 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1894
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015063531373

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The Writings of Charles Dickens by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Julian Wolfreys
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-04-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780748656059

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Dickens's London by Julian Wolfreys Pdf

This phenomenological exploration of the streets of Dickens's London opens up new perspectives on the city and the writer.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 902 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590300750

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Works. Repr. of the 1st eds., with intr. and notes by C. Dickens the younger. 20 vols. by Charles Dickens Pdf

Author : Leon Litvack,Nathalie Vanfasse
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2020-01-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781119602224

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Reading Dickens Differently by Leon Litvack,Nathalie Vanfasse Pdf

A collection of original essays and innovative reading strategies—provides examples of reading Dickens in creative and challenging ways Reading Dickens Differently features contributions from many of the field’s leading scholars, offering creative ways of reading Dickens and enriching understanding of the most celebrated author of his time. A diverse range of innovative reading strategies—archival, historical, textual, and digital—representing new and exciting approaches to contemporary literary and cultural studies. This groundbreaking volume brings together literature, history, politics, painting, illustration, social media, video games, and other topics to reveal new opportunities to engage with the author's life and work. This unique book includes a re-evaluation of Dickens’ death and burial, new research data drawn from legal records and newspapers, assessments of well-known paintings and lesser-known illustrations, experimental readings of Dickens’ texts in digital form, and more. Much of the evidence presented has never been seen before, such as Dickens' funeral fee account from Westminster Abbey, Dickens' death certificate, and a telegram from Dickens' son asking for urgent assistance for his dying father. Revising and refreshing the critical strategies of traditional Dickens studies, this important volume: Features new research data on aspects of Dickens's life Discusses a range of innovative reading strategies (including physiological novel theory) for clarifying aspects of Dickens' work Examines the presence of Dickens in popular media and technology, such as Assassin’s Creed video game and A Christmas Carol iPad app Features rare illustrations, including documents and images relating to Dickens's death and funeral Edited by world authorities on Dickens and his manuscripts Authoritative, yet accessible, Reading Dickens Differently is a must-have book for Dickens specialists, instructors and students in Victorian fiction and Dickens courses, as well as general readers lookingfor innovative reading strategies of the author's work.