Grace Moore

Dickens and Empire

Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens

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Produktbeschreibung

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material, it offers a radical reassessment of the writer's stance on racial matters. This first sustained analysis of Dickens and his often problematic relationship to the British Empire provides fresh readings of a number of Dickens texts, in particular A Tale of Two Cities. The work also presents a more complicated but balanced view of one of the most famous figures in Victorian literature.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 318g
• ISBN-13: 9781138251724
• ISBN-10: 1138251720
• Artikelnr.: 57056073

Autorenporträt

Grace Moore is Lecturer in Literary Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Introduction
Emigration, transportation, and the problem of closure
National identity
The racial order
Red tape and circumlocution: the Crimean War
'How to make an India pickle'
A tale of three revolutions: Dickens's response to the Sepoy rebellion
Containing Cawnpore: the reinvention and reinterpretation of the Indian Mutiny
The 1860s and the decline of the discourse
Afterword
Bibliography
Index.