Some keywords in Dickens. /

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

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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)
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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.

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