Biblical Allusion in the Opening Numbers of Three of Charles Dickens’s Serialized Novels

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-05-23 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2023.0020
Zhuo Yuanyuan
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Charles Dickens’s allusive and thematic use of the Bible in his novels and other writings has caught critical attention over the past four decades, resulting in studies that either explore his personal belief and his attitude towards religious and theological issues,1 or interpret his texts’ themes, characters, or narratives by examining their connections with biblical counterparts.2 Most recently, Jennifer Gribble’s Dickens and the Bible: “What Providence Meant” (2021) has explored how Dickens engages the Judeo-Christian grand narrative in his novels in dialogue with other contemporary narratives. However, critical examination of biblical allusion in Dickens’s novels has overlooked the aspect of serial publication that shaped how his contemporary readers would have approached and read his works. Each of the three novels under consideration in this article was serialized either in Dickens’s weekly magazine Household Words (Hard Times) or in separate monthly instalments (Bleak House and Little Dorrit). This article aims to theorize both explicit and implicit use of biblical allusion and its workings in the opening numbers of these three novels as structural and thematic tools that help organize oppositional stances embodied in characters and institutions and that foster active reading by drawing upon the reader’s familiarity with the Bible.3
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查尔斯·狄更斯三部连载小说开头的圣经典故
在过去的四十年里,查尔斯·狄更斯在他的小说和其他作品中对圣经的暗指和主题的使用引起了评论界的关注,导致研究要么探索他的个人信仰和他对宗教和神学问题的态度,1或通过检查他们与圣经对应部分的联系来解释他的文本的主题,人物或叙述最近,詹妮弗·格里布尔的《狄更斯与圣经:上帝意味着什么》(2021)探讨了狄更斯如何在他的小说中将犹太-基督教的宏大叙事与其他当代叙事进行对话。然而,对狄更斯小说中圣经典故的批判性研究忽视了连续出版的方面,这方面影响了他的当代读者如何接触和阅读他的作品。本文讨论的三部小说要么在狄更斯的周刊《家常话(艰难时期)》上连载,要么在单独的月度分期(《荒凉山庄》和《小杜丽》)中连载。这篇文章的目的是理论化圣经典故的显性和隐性使用及其在这三部小说开头数中的作用,作为结构和主题工具,帮助组织体现在人物和制度中的对立立场,并通过吸引读者对圣经的熟悉来促进积极的阅读
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