Some keywords in Dickens. / / edited by Michael Hollington, Francesca Orestano and Nathalie Vanfasse.

• Superior document: Close Reading. ; v.4
• TeilnehmendeR: Vanfasse, Nathalie,; Orestano, Francesca,; Hollington, Michael,
• Place / Publishing House: Göttingen, Germany : : Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht,, [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Close Reading.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (249 pages)

Table of Contents

Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Body -- Acknowledgements -- Michael Hollington / Francesca Orestano / Nathalie Vanfasse: Introduction -- 1. Victor Sage: "ˋBoy' in Dickens" -- 2. Jeremy Parrott: "Charles Dickens as ˋConductor': an Exploration of Meanings, Roles and Associations" -- 3. Nathalie Vanfasse: "Revisiting Debt, Debtors and Indebtedness in Little Dorrit" -- 4. Peter Merchant: "ˋFound Out': Dickens and the Dread of Discovery" -- 5. Ewa Kujawska-Lis: "Hands in Great Expectations: Some Narrative Uses" -- 6. Nathalie Jaëck: "ˋHoorroar!': Dickens's Political, Epistemological and Aesthetic Rehabilitation of Noises" -- 7. Céline Prest: ˋ"It's a monomania ... to think he is possessed of documents': Paper Obsession and Possession in Bleak House" -- 8. Dominic Rainsford: "ˋLuller-li-e-te'! Language, Personhood, and Sympathy in Sketches by Boz" -- 9. Magdalena Pypec: "Opium as a Keyword in Dickens's Novels" -- 10. Maria Teresa Chialant: "Play in The Old Curiosity Shop" -- 11. Francesca Orestano: "Prison" -- 12. Michael Hollington: "River and Text in Three Mature Novels by Charles Dickens" -- 13. Lillian Nayder: "Sideways in Dickens" -- 14. Jeremy Tambling: "ˋWhat is called taste is only another name for fact': Two Dickens Keywords" -- 15. Michael Eaton: "The Wordly World of George Silverman" -- Victor Sage (University of East Anglia): "Boy" in Dickens. Introductory: Between Description and Name -- 1. "A Boy is Innocent" -- 2. "A Boy is a (natural) thief" -- 3. "A soaring human boy": Boy as an Angel -- 4. Anti-Maturity: Boys in Middle Age -- 5. "A Boy is a Witness that cannot be sworn" -- 6. "Boy" as Pre-Civilised, "Savage" -- 7. Servitude: "Boy" as "Slave"/Slave as "Boy" -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Jeremy Parrott (University of Buckingham): Charles Dickens as "Conductor": an Exploration of Meanings, Roles and Associations.

Works Cited -- Nathalie Vanfasse (LERMA, Aix-Marseille Université): Revisiting Debt, Debtors and Indebtedness in Little Dorrit -- Incurring Debts to Survive -- Debts Acknowledgement/Debt Admission -- Works Cited -- Peter Merchant (Canterbury Christ Church University): "Found Out": Dickens and the Dread of Discovery -- Works Cited -- Ewa Kujawska-Lis (University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn, Poland): Hands in Great Expectations: Some Narrative Uses -- Works Cited -- Nathalie Jaëck (CLIMAS, Université Bordeaux Montaigne): "Hoorroar!": Dickens's Political, Epistemological and Aesthetic Rehabilitation of Noises -- Works Cited -- Céline Prest (Sorbonne Nouvelle - Paris 3): "It's a monomania with [Krook] to think he is possessed of documents": Paper Obsession and Possession in Bleak House (1852-1853) -- The Strange Collection Case of the Monomaniac -- Monomania as a Scientific Diagnosis -- Monomania, Monologue and Monotony -- Obsession and Possession: the Besieged Mind of the Monomaniac -- Bibliomania as Literal Mal du Siècle -- "The ill name of Chancery" -- "Going mad by grains" -- Works Cited -- Dominic Rainsford (Aarhus University): "Luller-li-e-te"! Language, Personhood, and Sympathy in Sketches by Boz -- Works cited -- Magdalena Pypeć (University of Warsaw): Opium as a Keyword in Dickens's Novels -- Literal and metaphorical -- The power of opium -- Narcosis and narco business -- Romantic legacy -- Wretchedness and degradation -- Opium and the working classes -- China and British imperialism -- Opium and capitalism -- Divided selves -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Maria Teresa Chialant (University of Salerno, Italy): Play in The Old Curiosity Shop -- Work vs Play in The Old Curiosity Shop -- Huizinga and Caillois -- Agon and Alea -- Mimicry and Ilinx -- Nell's Death as a Sacred Performance -- Works Cited.

Francesca Orestano (Università degli Studi di Milano): Prison -- Dickens and His Prisons -- Prisons at Home -- Prisons Abroad -- Prisons in Fiction -- Little Dorrit, the Prison Motif -- Keywords Related to the Prison Motif -- Works Cited -- Michael Hollington (Life Member, Clare Hall, Cambridge University): River and Text in Three Mature Novels by Charles Dickens -- Works Cited -- Lillian Nayder (Bates College): Sideways in Dickens -- Works Cited -- Jeremy Tambling (University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Warsaw): "What is called taste is only another name for fact": Two Dickens Keywords -- Works Cited -- Michael Eaton (dramatist): The Worldly World of George Silverman -- "A worldly little devil was mother's usual name for me." -- "It happened in this wise" -- Works Cited -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.