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Description of  Dickens' Novels as Poetry: Allegory and Literature of the City (Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature)

1138062995 epub Focusing on the language, style, and poetry of Dickens novels, this study breaks new ground in reading Dickens novels as a unique form of poetry. Dickens writing disallows the statement of single unambiguous truths and shows unconscious processes burrowing within language, disrupting received ideas and modes of living. Arguing that Dickens, within nineteenth-century modernity, sees language as always double, Tambling draws on a wide range of Victorian texts and current critical theory to explore Dickens interest in literature and popular song, and what happens in jokes, in caricature, in word-play and punning, and in naming. Working from Dickens earliest writings to the latest, deftly combining theory with close analysis of texts, the book examines Dickens key novels, such as Pickwick Papers, Martin Chuzzlewit, Dombey and Son, Read more