Dickens's Villains
Melodrama, Character, Popular Culture
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 March 2001
- ISBN 9780198184614
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages272 pages
- Size 224x147x19 mm
- Weight 437 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
The first major study of Dickens's villains argues that they embody the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and the 'theatrical' aspects of Dickens's writing. Dickens's Villains locates the rationale for his theatrical characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'.
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This is the first major study of Dickens's villains. They embody, John argues, the crucial fusion between the 'deviant' and 'theatrical' aspects of his writing. Though there have been many studies of both the macabre and the dramatic Dickens, this book sets up a dialogue between these two main strands. John's wider reappraisal of Dickensian character stems from a belief that post-Romantic criticism and theory has been permeated by an anti-theatrical privileging of the mind. Dickens's characters, by contrast, are commonly modelled on passional prototypes from nineteenth-century melodrama. Her interdisciplinary study locates the rationale for Dickens's melodramatic characters in his political commitment to the principle of cultural inclusivity and his related resistance to 'psychology'. Melodramatic villains function as the key site of Dickens's responses to theatricality, psychology, and cultural inclusiveness. Dickens's Villains suggests a new way of understanding the cultural and political implications of his melodramatic aesthetics.
This is a strong, provocative contribution to Dickens studies, to our deeper understanding of his debt to the complex protean creature that is 'popular culture' - and his contribution to it.
Table of Contents:
Note on the text
Abbreviations
Introduction
I: Melodrama, Villainy, Acting
Intellectual Incorrectness: Melodrama, Populism, Cultural Hierarchies
The Villains of Stage Melodrama: Romanticism and the Politics of Character
Acting and Ambivalence: Periodical Passions
II: Dickens's Novels
Melodramatic Poetics and the Gothic Villain: Interiority, Deviance, Emotion
Twisting the Newgate Tale: Popular Culture, Pleasure and the Politics of Genre
Dickens and Dandyism: Masking Interiority
Byronic Baddies, Melodramatic Anxieties
Sincerely Deviant Women
Afterword
Bibliography
Index
