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Dickensian Affects - Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity (Hardcover)
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Dickensian Affects - Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature
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In Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity,
Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens's novels offer models of feeling
that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life's
precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence,
anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens's novels, Gooch explores
how they represent and shape emotions to create rhythms specific to
their historical moment. To unearth Dickensian affects, Gooch
examines how some of Dickens's novels yoke elements in their
difference to signal different kinds and ways of feeling, what he
terms affective form. This patterning of elements links a text's
ways of feeling to its conjuncture and locates lines of flight that
allow its representations of emotion to become something else. The
violence of Oliver Twist links its satire of the New Poor Law to
the post-abolition period of apprenticeship in the West Indies. The
pervasive anxiety of The Old Curiosity Shop links Nell's journey to
arguments economic inequality focused on questions of inheritance
and land reform. The surprise of David Copperfield binds its
interests in questions of character and trust to Britain's
professional world and credit markets. And the suspense of Great
Expectations gestures toward a sense of shame and demand for new
models of masculine character also seen in the Volunteer rifle
militias. Dickensian Affects argues that for Dickens, questions of
feeling reveal the precarity of feeling itself. For Dickens, to
feel is to know the possibility of feeling otherwise.
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