Spectral Dickens : the uncanny forms of novelistic characterization /: the uncanny forms of novelistic characterization. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alexander A. Bove.
• Authors: Bove, Alexander A
• Editors: Barton, Anna; Smith, Andrew
• Contents: Introduction: An uncanny ontology of characterisationPart I Spectral mimesis: portraits, caricature, and character 1 Mimesis’s ghosts: caricature and anamorphosis2 Spectral character: dreams, distortion, and the (cut of the) realPart 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 fathersBibliography Index
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 823.8; LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century; LITERARY CRITICISM / Subjects & Themes / General; Literary Studies: Fiction, Novelists & Prose Writers; Literary Theory; Characters; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526147943; 9781526147950
• Related ISBNs: 9781526147936
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