Dickensian Divisions: David Copperfield's "Hero[ine] of my own life"

IF 0.7 1区 文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES DICKENS QUARTERLY Pub Date : 2023-02-22 DOI:10.1353/dqt.2023.0002
Kathryne Ford
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Abstract:This article explores how Charles Dickens's failed romance with Maria Beadnell–which drove him to burn his early autobiographical attempt–haunts his fictional life-writing novel David Copperfield. Maria's rejection intensified Dickens's previous traumas of the blacking warehouse and his father's imprisonment–subsequently producing a type of Freudian split self that I term the Dickensian hero/protagonist split. David is the novel's protagonist, but Agnes is its hero/ine. These divisions underscore Dickens's overarching preoccupations with legacy, and his notoriously fraught relationship with the life-writing genre. Agnes may not be a figure modern readers can admire; however, her position as hero/ine in David Copperfield's history nonetheless illuminates Dickens's own traumas, manifested in David's insecurities about heroism and narrative legacy.
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狄更斯式的划分:大卫·科波菲尔的“我生命中的英雄”
摘要:本文探讨了查尔斯·狄更斯与玛丽亚·比德内尔失败的恋情如何影响他的虚构人生小说《大卫·科波菲尔》。玛丽亚的拒绝加剧了狄更斯之前在黑货仓和他父亲入狱的创伤——随后产生了一种弗洛伊德式的自我分裂,我称之为狄更斯式的英雄/主角分裂。大卫是小说的主角,但阿格尼斯是它的主人公。这些分歧凸显了狄更斯对遗产的压倒一切的关注,以及他与生活写作类型之间臭名昭著的令人担忧的关系。阿格尼斯可能不是一个现代读者可以欣赏的人物;然而,她在大卫·科波菲尔的历史中作为英雄/线的地位仍然照亮了狄更斯自己的创伤,表现在大卫对英雄主义和叙事遗产的不安全感上。
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