Alexander Bove

Spectral Dickens

The uncanny forms of novelistic characterization

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Manchester University Press
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 460g
• ISBN-13: 9781526147936
• ISBN-10: 1526147939
• Artikelnr.: 59992549

Autorenporträt

Alexander Bove is Professor of English at Pacific University

Inhaltsangabe

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