Dickens and the Gothic (Elements in the Gothic) - Softcover

Smith, Andrew

 
9781009282475: Dickens and the Gothic (Elements in the Gothic)

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Dickens and the Gothic provides a critical focus on representations of social and psychological entrapment which demonstrates how Dickens employs the Gothic to evaluate how institutions and formations of history impinge on the individual. An analysis of these forms of Gothic entrapment reveals how these institutions and representations of public and personal history function Gothically in Dickens, because they hold back other, putatively reformist, ambitions. To be trapped in an institution such as a prison, or by the machinations of a law court, or haunted by history, or to be haunted by ghosts, represent forms of Gothic entrapment which this study examines both psychologically and sociologically.

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ISBN 10:  1009539108 ISBN 13:  9781009539104
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024
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