The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens
(Sprache: Englisch)
This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are...
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This book explores the relationship between Dickens and canonical Romantic authors: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Percy and Mary Shelley, and Keats. Addressing a significant gap in Dickens studies, four topics are identified: Childhood, Time, Progress, and Outsiders, which together constitute the main aspects of Dickens's debt to the Romantics. Through close readings of key Romantic texts, and eight of Dickens's novels, Peter Cook investigates how Dickens utilizes Romantic tropes to express his responses to the exponential growth of post-revolutionary industrial, technological culture and its effects on personal life and relationships. In this close study of Dickensian Romanticism, Cook demonstrates the enduring relevance of Dickens and the Romantics to contemporary culture.
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Chapter 1: IntroductionLiterary Context
A Methodology of Influence, Ecology and Things
Critical Context
Method, Design and Structure
Chapter 2: Childhood
Education Debates and Parental Aspirations
David Copperfield: Failing FamiliesChildhood to Adulthood
Heroes and Villains
Romantic Pedigree
Tempestuous Images
Great Expectations: a Novel without a Hero?
Character and EnvironmentChapter 3: Time
Watches and Clocks
Dombey and Son: Hides and Hearts
'A Watch That'll Do You Credit'
Commonplace Obituaries, Infant Philosophy
A Wandering Princess and a Good Monster
Our Mutual Friend: the Poorest of Mr. Dickens's Works
A Battle Within and Without
River and Rail
Chapter 4: Progress
Revolution and Science
Bleak House: Mudfog Revisited
Old School
Love One Another or Die
Hard Times outside London
Strangled in its cradle
Stale, flat, and unprofitable
Perfect Integrity
Chapter 5: Outsiders
Guilt and Isolation
Dickens and Master Humphrey
Unnatural Oppositions
Lonely Wanderers
Little Dorrit: Mind-forged Manacles
Pillars of Society
Familiar yet Misplaced
Nearly Everything of Importance
Chapter 6: Conclusion
Autoren-Porträt von Peter Cook
Peter Cook is Senior Lecturer at Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge, UK. His publications cover a wide range of interests, from the Romantics to Ted Hughes. Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Peter Cook
- 2018, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018, XIII, 276 Seiten, Masse: 14,8 x 21 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Springer, Berlin
- ISBN-10: 3030072525
- ISBN-13: 9783030072520
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
"It is a pleasure to encounter a thoughtful, illuminating analysis of a familiar novel that offers a fresh and innovative perspective. ... The Romantic Legacy of Charles Dickens is Cook's extensive research, presented in a way that is readable, accessible and clear, avoiding the pitfall of making the book sound like a doctoral dissertation. ... the book will ultimately create a fruitful legacy of its own among future scholars." (Sara L. Pearson, Brontë Studies, Vol. 44 (4), October, 2019)"Strengths of this study include its extensive close readings, attention to historical and cultural context, and identification of parallels between Romantic and Dickensian imagery. While the book will primarily be useful to literary scholars or humanists working on Dickens, it will also appeal to historians or scholars in cultural studies interested in the effects of industrialization, science, technology, modernity, and urbanization on the individual and society." (Kristen Starkowski, Journal of Victorian Culture, March 14, 2019)
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