Choice in Charles Dickens's later novels : the spectator's art /

Choice in Charles Dickens's later novels : the spectator's art /

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Author / Creator:	Easley, Keith, author.
Imprint:	Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2023] ©2023
Description:	viii, 288 pages ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Costerus new series ; volume 234 Costerus ; new ser., v. 234.
Subject:	Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation. Dickens, Charles, -- 1812-1870 Choice (Psychology) in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13469310

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ISBN:	9789004528499 9004528490 9789004543720
Language / Script:	Current Copyright Fee: GBP25.00 0.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	How much choice do you have in life? Charles Dickens's dramatisation of the relationship between characters and their audiences within his novels reflects upon us: in spectating spectators, readers engage in a dynamic of sameness and difference that will define and decide the struggle for choice in our own lives. We read the book, and the book is reading us. In his later novels, Charles Dickens uses the interaction between characters and their audiences within the fiction to dramatise his growing understanding of the pivotal role of spectatorship and choice in a more democratic society. Egotists of all stripes, intent on bending the world to their singular will, would appropriate the power of spectatorship by taking command of the detachment necessary for choice. Dickens's pluralistic art of sameness and difference redefines that detachment, and liberates choice both inside and outside the novels, for the relationship between characters and their audiences within the narratives actually inscribes our own relationship with them in the performance of reading, a reflective doubling of the fiction upon the reader across time with moral consequences for our spectatorship of our own lives. --Publisher's description.

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