Dickens And The Politics Of The Family

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Dickens and the Politics of the Family

Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521573556
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (215 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Politics of the Family written by Catherine Waters and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-07-03 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fictional representation of the family has long been regarded as a Dickensian speciality. But while nineteenth-century reviewers praised Dickens as the pre-eminent novelist of the family, any close examination of his novels reveals a remarkable disjunction between his image as the quintessential celebrant of the hearth, and his interest in fractured families. Catherine Waters offers an explanation of this discrepancy through an examination of Dickens's representation of the family in relation to nineteenth-century constructions of class and gender. Drawing upon feminist and new historicist methodologies, and focusing upon the normalising function of middle-class domestic ideology, Waters concludes that Dickens's novels record a shift in notions of the family away from an earlier stress upon the importance of lineage and blood towards a new ideal of domesticity assumed to be the natural form of the family.

The Other Dickens

Author : Lillian Nayder
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801465141
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (14 download)

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Download or read book The Other Dickens written by Lillian Nayder and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catherine Hogarth, who came from a cultured Scots family, married Charles Dickens in 1836, the same year he began serializing his first novel. Together they traveled widely, entertained frequently, and raised ten children. In 1858, the celebrated writer pressured Catherine to leave their home, unjustly alleging that she was mentally disordered-unfit and unloved as wife and mother. Constructing a plotline nearly as powerful as his stories of Scrooge and Little Nell, Dickens created the image of his wife as a depressed and uninteresting figure, using two of her three sisters against her, by measuring her presumed weaknesses against their strengths. This self-serving fiction is still widely accepted. In the first comprehensive biography of Catherine Dickens, Lillian Nayder debunks this tale in retelling it, wresting away from the famous novelist the power to shape his wife's story. Nayder demonstrates that the Dickenses' marriage was long a happy one; more important, she shows that the figure we know only as "Mrs. Charles Dickens" was also a daughter, sister, and friend, a loving mother and grandmother, a capable household manager, and an intelligent person whose company was valued and sought by a wide circle of women and men. Making use of the Dickenses' banking records and legal papers as well as their correspondence with friends and family members, Nayder challenges the long-standing view of Catherine Dickens and offers unparalleled insights into the relations among the four Hogarth sisters, reclaiming those cherished by the famous novelist as Catherine's own and illuminating her special bond with her youngest sister, Helen, her staunchest ally during the marital breakdown. Drawing on little-known, unpublished material and forcing Catherine's husband from center stage, The Other Dickens revolutionizes our perception of the Dickens family dynamic, illuminates the legal and emotional ambiguities of Catherine's position as a "single" wife, and deepens our understanding of what it meant to be a woman in the Victorian age.

Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London

Author : Andrea Warren
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0547395744
Total Pages : 165 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (473 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens and the Street Children of London written by Andrea Warren and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2011 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The motivations behind Dickens' novels and the poverty-stricken world of 19th century London.

What shall we have for dinner? By lady Maria Clutterbuck

Author : Catherine Thomson Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book What shall we have for dinner? By lady Maria Clutterbuck written by Catherine Thomson Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1852 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Queer Dickens

Author : Holly Furneaux
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191609927
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)

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Download or read book Queer Dickens written by Holly Furneaux and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2009-12-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a radically new reading of Dickens and his major works. It demonstrates that, rather than representing a largely conventional, conservative view of sexuality and gender, he presents a distinctly queer corpus, everywhere fascinated by the diversity of gender roles, the expandability of notions of the family, and the complex multiplicity of sexual desire. The book examines the long overlooked figures of bachelor fathers, maritally resistant men, and male nurses. It explores Dickens's attention to a longing, not to reproduce, but to nurture, his interest in healing touch, and his articulation, over the course of his career, of homoerotic desire. Holly Furneaux places Dickens's writing in a broad literary and social context, alongside authors including Bulwer-Lytton, Tennyson, Braddon, Collins, and Whitman, to make a case for Dickens's central position in queer literary history. Examining novels, poetry, life-writing, journalism, and legal and political debates, Queer Dickens argues that this eminent Victorian can direct us to the ways in which his culture could, and did, comfortably accommodate homoeroticism and families of choice. Further, it contends that Dickens's portrayals of nurturing masculinity and his concern with touch and affect between men challenge what we have been used to thinking about Victorian ideals of maleness. Queer Dickens intervenes in current debates about the Victorians (neither so punitive nor so prudish as we once imagined) and about the methodologies of the histories of the family and of sexuality. It makes the case for a more optimistic, nurturing, and life-affirming trajectory in queer theory.

The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191061115
Total Pages : 848 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018-09-13 with total page 848 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens is a comprehensive and up-to-date collection on Dickens's life and works. It includes original chapters on all of Dickens's writing and new considerations of his contexts, from the social, political, and economic to the scientific, commercial, and religious. The contributions speak in new ways about his depictions of families, environmental degradation, and improvements of the industrial age, as well as the law, charity, and communications. His treatment of gender, his mastery of prose in all its varieties and genres, and his range of affects and dramatization all come under stimulating reconsideration. His understanding of British history, of empire and colonization, of his own nation and foreign ones, and of selfhood and otherness, like all the other topics, is explained in terms easy to comprehend and profoundly relevant to global modernity.

Knowing Dickens

Author : Rosemarie Bodenheimer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801446146
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)

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Download or read book Knowing Dickens written by Rosemarie Bodenheimer and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2007-11-16 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind.

Themes in Dickens

Author : Peter J. Ponzio
Publisher : McFarland
ISBN 13 : 1476631352
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (766 download)

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Download or read book Themes in Dickens written by Peter J. Ponzio and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2018-03-04 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Victorian age is often portrayed as an era of repressive social mores. Yet this simplified view ignores the context of Great Britain's profound shift, through rapid industrialization, from rural to metropolitan life during this time. Throughout his career, Charles Dickens addressed the numerous changes occurring in Victorian society. His portrayals of organized religion, class distinction, worker's rights, prison reform and rampant poverty resonated with readers experiencing social upheaval. Focusing on his novels, nonfiction writing, speeches and personal correspondence, this book explores Dickens's use of these themes as both literary devices and as a means to effect social progress.

Dickens and the Business of Death

Author : Claire Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316241211
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)

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Download or read book Dickens and the Business of Death written by Claire Wood and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Dickens is famous for his deathbed scenes, but these have rarely been examined within the context of his ambivalence towards the Victorian commodification of death. Dickens repeatedly criticised ostentatious funeral and mourning customs, and asserted the harmful consequences of treating the corpse as an object of speculation rather than sympathy. At the same time, he was fascinated by those who made a living from death and recognised that his authorial profits implicated him in the same trade. This book explores how Dickens turned mortality into the stuff of life and art as he navigated a thriving culture of death-based consumption. It surveys the diverse ways in which death became a business, from body-snatching, undertaking, and joint-stock cemetery companies, to the telling and selling of stories. This broad study offers fresh perspectives on death in The Old Curiosity Shop and Our Mutual Friend, and discusses lesser-known works and textual illustrations.

Becoming Dickens

Author : Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674072235
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Becoming Dickens written by Robert Douglas-Fairhurst and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This provocative biography tells the story of how an ambitious young Londoner became England’s greatest novelist. Focused on the 1830s, it portrays a restless, uncertain Dickens who could not decide on a career path. Through twists and turns, the author traces a double transformation: in reinventing himself Dickens reinvented the form of the novel.

Dickens (Abridged)

Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0099437090
Total Pages : 627 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)

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Download or read book Dickens (Abridged) written by Peter Ackroyd and published by Random House. This book was released on 2002-05-28 with total page 627 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based upon an examination of original sources, this is a biography in which the figure of Charles Dickens and the moving spirit of his age are combined. The author also wrote "The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde", "Hawksmoor", "Chatterton", "T.S.Eliot" and "First Light".

Dickens, Death, and Christmas

Author : Robert L. Patten
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192862669
Total Pages : 369 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Dickens, Death, and Christmas written by Robert L. Patten and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-02 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Marley was dead, to begin with." Why does the most beloved of Christmas books open with a death? What has death to do with Christmas and New Years, and with Dickens's Christmas books and stories over his entire life? Robert L. Patten weaves together Dickens's life, career, writings, journalism, travel, theatrical presentations, and religious convictions to offer a richly designed and entertaining narrative, fulsomely illustrated, of the manifold ways Dickensfigures the spirit and traditions of the winter holidays in Victorian England.

The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens

Author : John O. Jordan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521669641
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (696 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens written by John O. Jordan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Companion to Charles Dickens offers a valuable introduction to Dickens for students and general readers.

Dombey and Son

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 564 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Dombey and Son written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Midnight Carol

Author : Patricia K. Davis
Publisher : St. Martin's Press
ISBN 13 : 1466883618
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book A Midnight Carol written by Patricia K. Davis and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2014-10-21 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A novel based on the true story of the struggle Charles Dickens faced during the winter of 1843 while writing his now-classic holiday tale, A Christmas Carol 1843, London. Though the approaching Christmas looks bleak at the home of the Dickens family, Charles and his pregnant wife Catherine try to maintain a good cheer for their four young children. Debts are mounting, food is scarce, and Charles' books—according to his miserly publisher—are no longer selling. Then Charles has an idea, which comes to him in the ghostly form of Oliver Cromwell, the long-dead, spirit-crushing, Lord Protector of England. A Christmas Carol will be Dickens' most brilliant work yet, both for its mass appeal and underlying political message. But many sinister forces oppose the success of this literary gem; and it is only through faith, kindness and the innate goodness of mankind that A Christmas Carol will become a timeless classic—and that the young writer Charles Dickens will truly save Christmas for all of England... Find the true story in A Midnight Carol by Patricia K. Davis, sure to become a brand new Christmas classic.

Charles Dickens

Author : Norman Page
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415222334
Total Pages : 456 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Charles Dickens written by Norman Page and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words

Author : Catherine Waters
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 135195041X
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Commodity Culture in Dickens's Household Words written by Catherine Waters and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1850, Charles Dickens founded Household Words, a weekly miscellany intended to instruct and entertain an ever-widening middle-class readership. Published in the decade following the Great Exhibition of 1851, the journal appeared at a key moment in the emergence of commodity culture in Victorian England. Alongside the more well-known fiction that appeared in its pages, Dickens filled Household Words with articles about various commodities-articles that raise wider questions about how far society should go in permitting people to buy and sell goods and services: in other words, how far the laissez-faire market should extend. At the same time, Household Words was itself a commodity. With marketability clearly in view, Dickens required articles for his journal to be 'imaginative,' employing a style that critics ever since have too readily dismissed as mere mannerism. Locating the journal and its distinctive handling of non-fictional prose in relation to other contemporary periodicals and forms of print culture, this book demonstrates the role that Household Words in particular, and the Victorian press more generally, played in responding to the developing world of commodities and their consumption at midcentury.