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Dickens and the Despised Mother
- A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels
Engelsk Paperback
Dickens and the Despised Mother
- A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels
Engelsk Paperback

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This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the protagonists in Dickens''s autobiographical novels. Taking Julia Kristeva''s psychoanalytic concept of abjection and Mary Douglas''s anthropological analysis of pollution as its conceptual framework, the book argues that Dickens''s primary emotional response towards the mother who abandoned him to work in a blacking warehouse was disgust, and suggests that we can trace similar signs of disgust in the narrators of his fictional autobiographies, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Great Expectations.

The author provides a close reading of Dickens''s autobiographical fragment and opens up the possibility that Dickens''s feelings towards his mother actually bore a significant influence on his fiction. The book closes with a provocative discussion of Dickens''s compulsive Sikes and Nancy public readings.

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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
228
ISBN-13:
9780786471393
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0786471395
Udg. Dato:
25 jan 2013
Længde:
12mm
Bredde:
152mm
Højde:
229mm
Forlag:
McFarland & Co Inc
Oplagsdato:
25 jan 2013
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