DICKENS'S VILLAINS by John, Juliet ISBN 0198184611
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This study argues that Dickens' villains embody the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book sets up a dialogue between the two main strands.
The first major study of Dickens's villains argues that they embody the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and the 'theatrical' aspects of Dickens's writing. Dickens's Villains locates the rationale for his theatrical characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'. This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book sets up a dialogue between these two main strands. John's wider reappraisal of Dickensian character stems from a belief that post-Romantic criticism and theory has been permeated by an anti-theatrical privileging of the mind. Dickens's characters, by contrast, are commonly modelled on passional prototypes from nineteenth-century melodrama. Her- interdisciplinary study locates the rationale for Dickens's melodramatic characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'. Melodramatic villains function as the key site of Dickens's responses to theatricality, psychology, and cultural inclusiveness. 'Dickens's Villains' suggests a new way of understanding the cultural and political implications of his melodramatic aesthetics.
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[edit] Title
DICKENS'S VILLAINS
[edit] Author
John, Juliet
[edit] ISBN
0198184611
[edit] Published
22/03/2001
[edit] Publisher
Oxford University Press
[edit] Binding
hardback
[edit] Retail Price
70 (GBP)
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