Dickens's Class Consciousness: A Marginal View 1991 Edition Contributor(s): Morris, P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0333487087 ISBN-13: 9780333487082 Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Hardcover Published: March 1991 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Modern - 19th Century - Literary Criticism | English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh - Literary Criticism | European - General |
Dewey: 823.8 |
Series: Marginal View |
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.80 lbs) 152 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 19th Century - Cultural Region - British Isles |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Dickens's social concern has always been recognized as important to his fiction, but this is the first study to focus specifically upon the representation of class consciousness in his novels. Dr Morris's detailed research on influential Victorian journals demonstrates the inherently dialogic quality of Dickens's writing - the continuous interaction between the language of his texts and the language of class articulated in the era. This re-articulation of the political contemporaneity of the novels reveals the marginal perspective they contain and offers new insight into the developing rhetorics of competitive individualism, class interpellation, and control of urban discontent. |