Dickens and the Myth of the Reader

AvCarolyn W. de la L. Oulton

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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Beskrivning

This study explores the ways in which Dickens’s published work and his thousands of letters intersect, to shape and promote particular myths of the reading experience, as well as redefining the status of the writer. It shows that the boundaries between private and public writing are subject to constant disruption and readjustment, as recipients of letters are asked to see themselves as privileged readers of coded text or to appropriate novels as personal letters to themselves. Imaginative hierarchies are both questioned and ultimately reinforced, as prefaces and letters function to create a mythical reader who is placed in imaginative communion with the writer of the text. But the written word itself becomes increasingly unstable, through its association in the later novels with evasion, fraud and even murder.

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Utgivningsdatum:2016-12-06
Mått:152 x 229 x 18 mm
Vikt:408 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:190
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9781138230323

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Carolyn Oulton is Professor of Victorian Literature and Director of the International Centre for Victorian Women Writers (ICVWW) at Canterbury Christ Church University, UK.

Innehållsförteckning

CONTENTSAcknowledgments Introduction: Creating the Reader and Creating the WriterChapter One: Reciprocal Readers and the 1830s and 40s Chapter Two: The Hero of His LifeChapter Three: First Person Narrators and Editorial "Conducting"Chapter Four: Decoding the TextChapter Five: Afterlives

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