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Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens

Dickens and Empire: Discourses of Class, Race and Colonialism in the Works of Charles Dickens

Moore, Grace

Hardcover

Series: Nineteenth Century

Literary CriticismGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0754634124
ISBN13: 9780754634126
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Nov 28 2004
Pages: 224
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.72 Width: 6.31 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material, it offers a radical reassessment of the writer's stance on racial matters. This first sustained analysis of Dickens and his often problematic relationship to the British Empire provides fresh readings of a number of Dickens texts, in particular A Tale of Two Cities. The work also presents a more complicated but balanced view of one of the most famous figures in Victorian literature.

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