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Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare and who created the 'Nightmare', and Blake, friend of Fuseli, and a silent underpresence in nineteenth-century writing. It provides readings of the Christmas Books, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend in the light of Shakespeare, Fuseli, and Blake. While concentrating on the figure of the marginalised beggar, and the criminal, and the vagrant, so finding a social history between Shakespeare and Dickens's time, it reads literary texts in the light of critical theory, using Blanchot, and Derrida, and Deleuze to illuminate the text and the power of writing within Shakespeare, Blake, and Dickens.
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Introduction: 'Of Imagination All Compact': Shakespeare, Fuseli, Blake, Dickens PART 1: ON THE FAIRIES Chapter 1. Dickens, Fuseli, and Fairies Chapter 2. Queen Mab: Old Women and Children in Dickens and Blake PART 2: 'THE STORY OF THE NIGHT' Chapter 3. The East Wind in the Christmas Books, and Bleak House, and Hamlet Chapter 4. Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and 'Two Dear Friends' in David Copperfield. PART 3: 'FOUL WEATHER' Chapter 5. Death on a Pale Horse: The Apocalypse in Bleak House Chapter 6. Mudfog Chapter 7. Who is Magwitch?: Great Expectations PART 4: 'A TEMPEST, BIRTH, AND DEATH' Chapter 8. The Islands of Little Dorrit Chapter 9. Romance, Death, Resurrection and a Conclusion: Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood
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Jeremy Tambling is a writer and critic working on English and European literature and critical theory. He is formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.
