The Romantic legacy of Charles Dickens

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    • Cook, Peter

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The Romantic legacy of Charles Dickens

Peter Cook

Palgrave Macmillan, c2018

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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内容説明

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.

目次

Chapter 1: Introduction Literary 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 Families Childhood to Adulthood Heroes and Villains Romantic Pedigree Tempestuous Images Great Expectations: a Novel without a Hero? Character and Environment Chapter 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

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