Abstract:In this article I look at how Dickens's text and his illustrators' drawings work together to erase the racially complex reality of Victorian London. I explore how the representations of the chimney-sweep in a variety of genres situate the sweep at a nexus of anxieties about race and class. By looking at the history of representing the May Day Parade, which showed Black participants, I argue that when the parade appears in Dickens's work, there is a deliberate erasure of Black presence. I then trace the sweep in Dickensian illustration to show that every time the sweep appears they carry the visual markers of the sweep – burnished cap, brush, and often bag – to comfort the (white) viewer and reader that they are not seeing a Black child on the street.
{"title":"The Blackness of the Chimney Sweep: Dickens, Illustrators, and Erasing Racial Complexity","authors":"C. Lehmann","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0025","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:In this article I look at how Dickens's text and his illustrators' drawings work together to erase the racially complex reality of Victorian London. I explore how the representations of the chimney-sweep in a variety of genres situate the sweep at a nexus of anxieties about race and class. By looking at the history of representing the May Day Parade, which showed Black participants, I argue that when the parade appears in Dickens's work, there is a deliberate erasure of Black presence. I then trace the sweep in Dickensian illustration to show that every time the sweep appears they carry the visual markers of the sweep – burnished cap, brush, and often bag – to comfort the (white) viewer and reader that they are not seeing a Black child on the street.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-08-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49410838","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Aesthetics of Space in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, 1843–1907 by Giles Whiteley (review)","authors":"Valerie Purton","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43243889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:"The Spirit of Fiction," an anonymous article published in All the Year Round on 27 July 1867, focuses on the natural propensity of human beings to attach a certain moral value to everything one experiences, hears or reads. According to the article, this disposition significantly affects the way we perceive reality, making the line between "fact" and "fiction" indistinct. Taking this argument into account, the present paper aims to elucidate the intricate relationship between these two concepts in Our Mutual Friend. In the novel, Dickens also foregrounds their ambiguous borderline, emphasizing that a blind adherence to an individual interpretation of reality can result in moral paralysis. Through the course of Boffin's pious fraud, Bella Wilfer's flexible perception of the world proves to be an essential virtue, which ultimately overcomes the self-destructive egoism represented by Podsnap.
{"title":"The Morality of Fiction-Making in Our Mutual Friend","authors":"M. Tsutsui","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0013","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:\"The Spirit of Fiction,\" an anonymous article published in All the Year Round on 27 July 1867, focuses on the natural propensity of human beings to attach a certain moral value to everything one experiences, hears or reads. According to the article, this disposition significantly affects the way we perceive reality, making the line between \"fact\" and \"fiction\" indistinct. Taking this argument into account, the present paper aims to elucidate the intricate relationship between these two concepts in Our Mutual Friend. In the novel, Dickens also foregrounds their ambiguous borderline, emphasizing that a blind adherence to an individual interpretation of reality can result in moral paralysis. Through the course of Boffin's pious fraud, Bella Wilfer's flexible perception of the world proves to be an essential virtue, which ultimately overcomes the self-destructive egoism represented by Podsnap.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47781929","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dickens and the Bible: \"What Providence Meant\" by Jennifer Gribble (review)","authors":"W. Werner","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43012488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Amongst recent critical interest in the study of Dickens's afterlives, one aspect of his posthumous "remediation" that has received relatively little attention is the work of those contemporaries who capitalized upon his celebrity on the lecture circuit after his death. This essay examines the platform performances of the American journalist, Kate Field, as they were reported in the pages of the nineteenth-century newspaper press. Field had attended virtually all of Dickens's public readings in Boston and New York, covering the tour for the New York Tribune in a series of extended reviews that became the basis for the lecture she developed following his death in 1870. Delivered many times in the United States and Britain, her lecture forms a revealing case study in the nineteenth-century mediation of celebrity.
{"title":"\"An Evening with Charles Dickens\" on the Nineteenth-Century Lecture Circuit","authors":"C. Waters","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Amongst recent critical interest in the study of Dickens's afterlives, one aspect of his posthumous \"remediation\" that has received relatively little attention is the work of those contemporaries who capitalized upon his celebrity on the lecture circuit after his death. This essay examines the platform performances of the American journalist, Kate Field, as they were reported in the pages of the nineteenth-century newspaper press. Field had attended virtually all of Dickens's public readings in Boston and New York, covering the tour for the New York Tribune in a series of extended reviews that became the basis for the lecture she developed following his death in 1870. Delivered many times in the United States and Britain, her lecture forms a revealing case study in the nineteenth-century mediation of celebrity.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45433673","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Artful Dickens: Tricks and Ploys of the Great Novelist by John Mullan (review)","authors":"D. Rainsford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0017","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48832889","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Dickens left an injunction in his will that he be buried "in an inexpensive, unostentatious and strictly private manner." This article, by analysis of previously unremarked contemporary newspaper reports and related documents, records the attempts of his grieving family and friends to address this requirement by considering burial sites in or near Rochester, and their ultimate decision to satisfy a perceived need for public commemoration. Events are traced from Dickens's death at Gad's Hill by Rochester on the evening of Thursday 9 June 1870 to his burial in the early morning of Tuesday 14 June at Westminster Abbey.
{"title":"\"Particulars as to the Proposed Interment of Charles Dickens at Rochester\"","authors":"William F. Long","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0014","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Dickens left an injunction in his will that he be buried \"in an inexpensive, unostentatious and strictly private manner.\" This article, by analysis of previously unremarked contemporary newspaper reports and related documents, records the attempts of his grieving family and friends to address this requirement by considering burial sites in or near Rochester, and their ultimate decision to satisfy a perceived need for public commemoration. Events are traced from Dickens's death at Gad's Hill by Rochester on the evening of Thursday 9 June 1870 to his burial in the early morning of Tuesday 14 June at Westminster Abbey.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48589899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Charles Dickens's 1842 American tour has in many ways been seen as a growth experience for the 30-year-old novelist. He was enthusiastic about his visit to the New World, but a substantial amount of evidence indicates that a major purpose behind the visit was to promote international copyright in the United States, a growing market for European writers, as the absence of such a law had been harmful to foreign authors whose works were pirated at an alarming rate. Frustratingly, what can more than plausibly be seen as a pre-planned campaign proved to be futile, as the author-turned-advocate had not factored in the historical and socio-economic circumstances of the young Republic, which were not conducive to the kind of law that would allow for a satisfactory remuneration of non-US writers, and a fair compensation for Boz himself. This article argues that the issue of the international copyright is surprisingly echoed by Martin Chuzzlewit's portrayal of Mrs. Gamp, one of Dickens's most memorable characters, a midwife and monthly nurse, who, just like her author, largely depends on the flights of her imagination to make a living.
{"title":"Charles Dickens's International Copyright Advocacy and Its Indirect Reflection in Martin Chuzzlewit","authors":"E. Plevljaković","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0011","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Charles Dickens's 1842 American tour has in many ways been seen as a growth experience for the 30-year-old novelist. He was enthusiastic about his visit to the New World, but a substantial amount of evidence indicates that a major purpose behind the visit was to promote international copyright in the United States, a growing market for European writers, as the absence of such a law had been harmful to foreign authors whose works were pirated at an alarming rate. Frustratingly, what can more than plausibly be seen as a pre-planned campaign proved to be futile, as the author-turned-advocate had not factored in the historical and socio-economic circumstances of the young Republic, which were not conducive to the kind of law that would allow for a satisfactory remuneration of non-US writers, and a fair compensation for Boz himself. This article argues that the issue of the international copyright is surprisingly echoed by Martin Chuzzlewit's portrayal of Mrs. Gamp, one of Dickens's most memorable characters, a midwife and monthly nurse, who, just like her author, largely depends on the flights of her imagination to make a living.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43727039","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Extraction Ecologies and the Literature of the Long Exhaustion by Elizabeth Carolyn Miller (review)","authors":"Iain Crawford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43706468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:This article examines Dickens's fascination with old buildings, places and objects. Dickens himself suggests that these relics of antiquity serve as stimulus and scaffold for a triad of memory, imagination and story-telling and repeatedly refers to the "mystery" inherent in old buildings, which I link to the Romantic idea of the suggestive power of ruins. Dickens, admittedly, frequently satirizes those who fetishize/romanticize the past, which might appear at odds with his own interest in material antiquity. This satirical approach, however, amounts to Dickens reflecting on his own practice and indirectly laying claim to a historical "new picturesque"–a purposeful, moral use of the past, superior to that of his literary rivals. I illustrate this by comparing The Old Curiosity Shop with the contemporaneous The Tower of London by W. H. Ainsworth. I conclude by arguing that Dickens is also highly conscious of the debt which his animation of the inanimate owes to acts of historical imagination, something he subtly acknowledges in "Meditations in Monmouth Street."
{"title":"Dickens and the Historical Imagination","authors":"L. Jackson","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2022.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2022.0012","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines Dickens's fascination with old buildings, places and objects. Dickens himself suggests that these relics of antiquity serve as stimulus and scaffold for a triad of memory, imagination and story-telling and repeatedly refers to the \"mystery\" inherent in old buildings, which I link to the Romantic idea of the suggestive power of ruins. Dickens, admittedly, frequently satirizes those who fetishize/romanticize the past, which might appear at odds with his own interest in material antiquity. This satirical approach, however, amounts to Dickens reflecting on his own practice and indirectly laying claim to a historical \"new picturesque\"–a purposeful, moral use of the past, superior to that of his literary rivals. I illustrate this by comparing The Old Curiosity Shop with the contemporaneous The Tower of London by W. H. Ainsworth. I conclude by arguing that Dickens is also highly conscious of the debt which his animation of the inanimate owes to acts of historical imagination, something he subtly acknowledges in \"Meditations in Monmouth Street.\"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2022-05-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46049156","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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