Choice in Charles Dickens's later novels : : the spectator's art / / by Keith Easley.

• Superior document: Costerus New Series ; volume 234
• VerfasserIn: Easley, Keith,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2023.; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Costerus ; new ser., v. 234.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages) :; illustrations.

We read the book, and the book is reading us. In his later novels, Charles Dickens uses the interaction between characters and their audiences within the fiction to dramatise his growing understanding of the pivotal role of spectatorship and choice in a more democratic society. Egotists of all strip...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• 1 Democracy: Political and Aesthetic
• 2 Dickens’s Democratic Aesthetic
• 3 Our Mutual Friend : Detachment and Money
• 4 A Tale of Two Cities : Reciprocity and Making History
• 5 The Mystery of Edwin Drood : Time and the Denial of Love
• 1 Our Mutual Friend Detachment and Money
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Controlling Spectatorship
• 3 True Detachment
• 4 Dickens’s Democratic Aesthetic
• 5 The Reciprocity of Wonder
• 6 Threefold Wonder and Time: Bella Wilfer
• 7 Threefold Wonder and Time: Eugene Wrayburn
• 8 Choice: The Reader and the Book
• 2 A Tale of Two Cities Reciprocity and Making History
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Silence and Spectatorship
• 3 Duplication and Doubling
• 4 Mystery of Character
• 5 Revolution and the Reader
• 6 Temporal Moral Creativity
• 7 Melodramatic Fairy Tale
• 8 Mystery and Doctor Manette
• 3 The Mystery of Edwin Drood Time and the Denial of Love
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Observation
• 3 Staging Sight
• 4 Singularity and Dualism
• 5 Visual Imagination
• 6 The Act of Witness
• 7 Breaking Singularity
• 8 Staging Time
• 9 Coda: The Choice of an End
• Conclusion
• Works Cited
• Index.