Dickens S Class Consciousness A Marginal View

Author : P. Morris
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230373983

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Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View by P. Morris Pdf

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.

Author : Pam Morris
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0312053533

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Dickens's Class Consciousness by Pam Morris Pdf

Author : Andrew C. Rouse,Michael Hollington,Géza Maráczi,A. D. Townsend,Anna Kérchy,Gabriella Hartvig,Ian Keable,Mária Kurdi,József Andor,Rudolf Nyári
Publisher : SPECHEL
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2015-10-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9789630894579

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CHARLES DICKENS 200 by Andrew C. Rouse,Michael Hollington,Géza Maráczi,A. D. Townsend,Anna Kérchy,Gabriella Hartvig,Ian Keable,Mária Kurdi,József Andor,Rudolf Nyári Pdf

Charles Dickens 200: Text and Beyond: a commemorative volume is the second volume in the new SPECHEL e-ditions series. It commemorates the two-hundredth anniversary of Dickens’s birth, and for the purpose brings together, in addition to ‘dyed-in-the-wool’ Dickensians, a curious variety of experts from a miscellany of areas of expertise ranging from folksinger to linguist and even magician. The chapters approach Charles Dickens from musical aspects ranging from opera to music-hall song and street ballad, from his role as a family conjuror, to psychological analyses of various of his characters and linguistic analysis of his style. He is regarded through the prism of the Irish literary scene but also through the eye of the Hungarian translator of his work, through operatic and photographic adaptations of his subject-matter. Every new chapter produces an exciting and unexpected new facet of the author, whose birth the volume celebrates.

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351944441

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Dickens and Victorian Print Cultures by Robert L. Patten Pdf

This volume places Dickens at the centre of a dynamic and expanding Victorian print world and tells the story of his career against a background of options available to him. The collection describes a world animated by outpourings of print materials: books, serials, newspapers, periodicals, libraries, paintings and prints, parodies and plagiarisms, censorship, advertising, as well as theatre and other entertainment, and celebrity. It also shows this period as driven by a growing and more literate population, and undergirded by a general conviction that writing was a crucial component of governance and civic culture. The extensive introduction and selected articles anchor Dickens's attempts to establish better conditions for writers regarding copyright protection, pay, status, recognition, and effectiveness in altering public policy. They speak about Dickens's life as playwright, journalist, novelist, editor, magazine publisher, theatrical producer, actor, lecturer, reader of his own works, supporter of charities for impoverished authors and fallen women, exponent of a morality of Christian compassion and domestic affections sometimes put into question by his own actions, proponent and critic of British nationalism, and champion of education for all. This selection of essays and articles from previously published accounts by internationally renowned scholars is of interest to all students and professionals who are fascinated by the composition, manufacture, finance, formats, pictorializations, sales, advertising and influence of Dickens's writing.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : English literature
ISBN : 9781438112824

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Charles Dickens, Updated Edition by Harold Bloom Pdf

Presents a collection of critical essays on Dickens and his works.

Author : Sarah Comyn
Publisher : Springer
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2018-10-04
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319943251

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Political Economy and the Novel by Sarah Comyn Pdf

Political Economy and the Novel: A Literary History of ‘Homo Economicus’ provides a transhistorical account of homo economicus (economic man), demonstrating this figure’s significance to economic theory and the Anglo-American novel over a 250-year period. Beginning with Adam Smith’s seminal texts – Theory of Moral Sentiments and The Wealth of Nations – and Henry Fielding’s A History of Tom Jones, this book combines the methodologies of new historicism and new economic criticism to investigate the evolution of the homo economicus model as it traverses through Ricardian economics and Jane Austen’s Sanditon; J. S. Mill and Charles Dickens’ engagement with mid-Victorian dualities; Keynesianism and Mrs Dalloway’s exploration of post-war consumer impulses; the a/moralistic discourses of Friedrich von Hayek, and Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged; and finally the virtual crises of the twenty-first century financial market and Don DeLillo’s Cosmopolis. Through its sustained comparative analysis of literary and economic discourses, this book transforms our understanding of the genre of the novel and offers critical new understandings of literary value, cultural capital and the moral foundations of political economy.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher : Knickerbocker Classics
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781631061721

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Great Expectations by Charles Dickens Pdf

Complete and unabridged, this is Great Expectations in an elegantly designed, cloth-bound, portable format.

Author : D. Morse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1993-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230378063

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High Victorian Culture by D. Morse Pdf

'...an illuminating survey work by a robust and powerful intelligence with an impressive grasp of a great deal of material.' Tony Tanner, The Times Literary Supplement High Victorian Culture is an in-depth study of Victorian Literature and culture in its heyday, from the accession to the throne by Queen Victoria in 1837 to her proclamation as Empress of India in 1877 - the age of Dickens, Carlyle, Mill, George Eliot, Tennyson and Browning. It is a time of growing national self-confidence and of impressive industrial, scientific and literary achievements; yet it is also an age marked by dislocation and uncertainty. Freedom of speech and openness of discussion were values on which Victorians ostensibly prided themselves, yet the actual prospect was one which high victorian culture found deeply troubling.

Author : Clare Walker Gore
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Disabilities in literature
ISBN : 9781474455039

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Plotting Disability in the Nineteenth-Century Novel by Clare Walker Gore Pdf

This book takes an exciting new approach to characterisation and plot in the Victorian novel, examining the vital narrative work performed by disabled characters.

Author : Dorice Williams Elliott
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780821446690

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Transported to Botany Bay by Dorice Williams Elliott Pdf

Literary representations of British convicts exiled to Australia were the most likely way that the typical English reader would learn about the new colonies there. In Transported to Botany Bay, Dorice Williams Elliott examines how writers—from canonical ones such as Dickens and Trollope to others who were themselves convicts—used the figure of the felon exiled to Australia to construct class, race, and national identity as intertwined. Even as England’s supposedly ancient social structure was preserved and venerated as the “true” England, the transportation of some 168,000 convicts facilitated the birth of a new nation with more fluid class relations for those who didn’t fit into the prevailing national image. In analyzing novels, broadsides, and first-person accounts, Elliott demonstrates how Britain linked class, race, and national identity at a key historical moment when it was still negotiating its relationship with its empire. The events and incidents depicted as taking place literally on the other side of the world, she argues, deeply affected people’s sense of their place in their own society, with transnational implications that are still relevant today.

Author : Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-30
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9783030217747

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Imaging Identity by Johannes Riquet,Martin Heusser Pdf

This volume explores the many facets and ongoing transformations of our visual identities in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Its chapters engage with the constitution of personal, national and cultural identities at the intersection of the verbal and the visual across a range of media. They are attentive to how the medialities and (im)materialities of modern image culture inflect our conceptions of identity, examining the cultural and political force of literature, films, online video messages, rap songs, selfies, digital algorithms, social media, computer-generated images, photojournalism and branding, among others. They also reflect on the image theories that emerged in the same time span—from early theorists such as Charles S. Peirce to twentieth-century models like those proposed by Roland Barthes and Jacques Derrida as well as more recent theories by Jacques Rancière, W. J. T. Mitchell and others. The contributors of Imaging Identity come from a wide range of disciplines including literary studies, media studies, art history, tourism studies and semiotics. The book will appeal to an interdisciplinary readership interested in contemporary visual culture and image theory.

Author : Henry Stead,Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 387 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781472584274

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Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform by Henry Stead,Edith Hall Pdf

Greek and Roman Classics in the British Struggle for Social Reform presents an original and carefully argued case for the importance of classical ideas, education and self-education in the personal development and activities of British social reformers in the 19th and first six decades of the 20th century. Usually drawn from the lower echelons of the middle class and the most aspirational artisanal and working-class circles, the prominent reformers, revolutionaries, feminists and educationalists of this era, far from regarding education in Latin and Greek as the preserve of the upper classes and inherently reactionary, were consistently inspired by the Mediterranean Classics and contested the monopoly on access to them often claimed by the wealthy and aristocratic elite. The essays, several of which draw on previously neglected and unpublished sources, cover literary figures (Coleridge, the 'Cockney Classicist' poets including Keats, and Dickens), different cultural media (burlesque theatre, body-building, banner art, poetry, journalism and fiction), topics in social reform (the desirability of revolution, suffrage, poverty, social exclusion, women's rights, healthcare, eugenics, town planning, race relations and workers' education), as well as political affiliations and agencies (Chartists, Trade Unions, the WEA, political parties including the Fabians, the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Labour Party). The sixteen essays in this volume restore to the history of British Classics some of the subject's ideological complexity and instrumentality in social progress, a past which is badly needed in the current debates over the future of the discipline. Contributors include specialists in English Literature, History, Classics and Art.

Author : Brenda Ayres
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1998-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015045698811

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Dissenting Women in Dickens' Novels by Brenda Ayres Pdf

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.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Best Books Incorporated
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Academic libraries
ISBN : PSU:000049826531

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The Best Books for Academic Libraries by Anonim Pdf

Books recommended for undergraduate and college libraries listed by Library of Congress Classification Numbers.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2132 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105005605253

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