Charles Dickens / Edition 1

by Steven Connor

Overview

Dickens is second only to Shakespeare in the range and intensity of critical discussion which his work has provoked. His writing is central to literature and culture across the English-speaking world. In this important new anthology, Steven Connor gathers together representative examples of the range of new critical approaches to Dickens over the last two decades.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780582210158
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/21/1996
Series:	Longman Critical Readers
Pages:	248
Product dimensions:	5.44(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction. 2. Peter Brooks: Repitition, Repression and Return: The Plotting of Great Expectations 3. J Hillis Miller: Dicken's Bleak House. 4. Christoppher D Morris: The Bad Faith of Pip's Bad Faith: Deconstructing Great Expectations. 5. Mikhail Bakhtin: Heteroglossia in the Novel: Little Dorrit. 6. Roger Fowler: Polyphony and Problematic in Hard Times. 7. .Jeremy Tambling: Prison-Bound: Dickens and Foucault Great Expectations.
8. D A Miller: Discipline in Different Voices: Bureaucracy, Police, Family and Bleak House. 9. Terry Eagleton: Ideology and Literary Form: Charles Dickens. 10. Jane Ferguson Carr: Writing as a Woman: Dickens, Hard Times and Feminine Discourses. 11. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick: Homophobia, Misogyny and Capital: Our Mutual Friend.
12. John Kucich: Repression and Representation: Dicken's General Economy, Our Mutual Friend. 13. Steven Connor Space, Place and the Body of Riot in Barnaby Rudge. Further Reading. Index