"Cancelled" by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2024.a920207
Elizabeth Bridgham
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Inspired by a teaching experience in which a group of students equated the mob violence of the French Revolution with the contemporary phenomenon of “cancel culture,” this article considers the ways in which Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities incorporates a consideration of the foundations and limits of celebrity power. By examining contemporary studies of the history and significance of “cancellation,” we can understand their relevance to a Dickens who was anxious about maintaining his celebrity status and controlling his image amid a marital scandal that threatened his ability to do both. Read through this lens, the experience of Doctor Manette, a character who uses his celebrity to protect his loved ones and whose celebrity power is then turned against him, speaks to our present moment as Dickens’s expression of concern at what might happen when a previously adoring public takes the reins of reputation from the prominent.

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被革命 "取消"?双城记》中名人的局限性
摘要:在一次教学经历中,一群学生将法国大革命时期的暴民暴力等同于当代的 "取消文化 "现象,受此启发,本文探讨了狄更斯的《双城记》如何将对名人权力的基础和限制的思考融入其中。通过考察当代对 "取消 "的历史和意义的研究,我们可以了解这些研究与狄更斯的相关性,狄更斯在婚姻丑闻威胁到他的名人地位和形象的情况下,急于维持自己的名人地位和控制自己的形象。通过这一视角来解读《马内特医生》,狄更斯用他的名人效应来保护他所爱的人,而他的名人效应却反过来对他不利,他的经历与我们当下的生活息息相关,表达了狄更斯对以前崇拜的公众从显赫人物手中夺走声誉缰绳时可能发生的事情的担忧。
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