Spectral Dickens - The Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens' illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove's work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms.

Sommario

Introduction: An uncanny ontology of characterisation
Part I Spectral mimesis: portraits, caricature, and character
1 Mimesis's ghosts: caricature and anamorphosis
2 Spectral character: dreams, distortion, and the (cut of the) real
Part II "Moor eeffocish things": effigy and the bourgeoisie
3 Where "the specular becomes the spectral" in The Old Curiosity Shop and Dombey and Son
4 Imagos, dolls, and other gazing effigies in Bleak House
Part III Beyond the realism principle: spectral materiality
5 Dream as spectral form in Bleak House and the comic surplus of Micawber in David Copperfield
6 The "As if" hauntology of Little Dorrit and the uncanny dream of the three fathers
Bibliography
Index

Info autore

Alexander Bove is Professor of English at Pacific University

Riassunto

Spectral Dickens posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian Real, Bove’s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms. -- .

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Alexander Bove, Alexander A. Bove
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781526147936
• ISBN: 978-1-5261-4793-6
• Pagine: 256
• Serie: Interventions: Rethinking the Nineteenth Century; Interventions: Rethinking the
• Categorie: Narrativa > Poesia lirica, drammatica; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura / linguistica inglese; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary theory, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers