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Pickwick to Chuzzlewit

Häftad, Engelska, 2003

Av John Bowen, University of Keele) Bowen, John (

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In the first half of his career, Dickens wrote some of the most important novels of the nineteenth century, including The Pickwick Papers, Oliver Twist, and Martin Chuzzlewit. They are exorbitant and transgressive books, with an inventive comic force unprecedented in the English novel. In this, the first full-length study for thirty years, John Bowen blends contemporary theory and historical awareness to argue that they are radical in both political and fictional terms. With a tactful use of contemporary critical theory, he shows how their often uncanny power disturbs and transforms our ways of understanding Dickens's work and his place in the history of the novel.

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Utgivningsdatum2003-02-20
Mått139 x 217 x 12 mm
Vikt303 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor240
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780199261406

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Review from previous edition Disclaiming the adoption of any single, coherent, theoretical approach, the book is nevertheless distinguished throughout by the influence of Derrida, Bakhtin and Freud. These influences fuel its pervasive delight in linguistic play and the carnivalesque - in punning, hyperbole, excess, hybridity - and its focus on the transformational energies of Dickens's writing. But in utilising these broadly deconstructive approaches, Bowen never allows them to outplay the writing itself. Reading the novels in sequence, his aim is to "witness to each text's singular force" while showing the various ways in which these novels "enact one of the more sustained projects of textual experimentation in the language". And he succeeds ...The book's ... approach yields some fresh and incisive readings of the novel ...