Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories

Dickens Refigured: Bodies, Desires, and Other Histories
ISBN-10
071904247X
ISBN-13
9780719042478
Category
Alienation (Social psychology) in literature
Pages
260
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
Manchester University Press
Author
John Schad

Description

Reveals the dark underside of Charles Dickens's work in the light of contemporary literary and cultural theory. Exploring transgressions and perversities in his work, this collection of essays focuses on the marginal figures (the Jew, the corpse), improbable concerns (idleness, insomnia), unlikely spaces (the crypt, the shop window) and radical voices (republican, homoerotic) in his novels.

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