Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels Paperback - 2013
by Shale Preston
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This work offers an original interpretation of the mothers of the protagonists in Dickens's autobiographical novels. Taking Julia Kristeva's psychoanalytic concept of abjection and Mary Douglas's anthropological analysis of pollution as its conceptual framework, the book argues that Dickens's primary emotional response towards the mother who abandoned him to work in a blacking warehouse was disgust, and suggests that we can trace similar signs of disgust in the narrators of his fictional autobiographies, David Copperfield, Bleak House, and Great Expectations.
The author provides a close reading of Dickens's autobiographical fragment and opens up the possibility that Dickens's feelings towards his mother actually bore a significant influence on his fiction. The book closes with a provocative discussion of Dickens's compulsive Sikes and Nancy public readings.
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- Title Dickens and the Despised Mother: A Critical Reading of Three Autobiographical Novels
- Author Shale Preston
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: first
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher McFarland & Company
- Date 2013-01
- ISBN 9780786471393 / 0786471395
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Cultural Region: British
- Library of Congress subjects Dickens, Charles - Criticism and, Dickens, Charles - Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012044135
- Dewey Decimal Code 823.8
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