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Bent and Broken 弯曲和断裂

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DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920204

Sean Grass

Abstract:

This essay reflects on Charles Dickens’s Great Expectations and what it has meant, and continues to mean, to me as a reader and scholar of Dickens. Beginning from the observation that students seem invariably to detest Pip, the essay explains how reading the novel hermeneutically, as a lesson for my own life, has helped me to ruminate the complex feelings of shame that I have long felt regarding my own working-class childhood, and my own Estella. What I suggest finally is that, while neither of Great Expectations’s endings is particularly happy, the novel ends with a muted but hopeful message about finding contentment, peace, and even joy despite being bent and broken

摘要:这篇文章反映了查尔斯-狄更斯的《远大前程》，以及作为狄更斯的读者和学者，它对我的意义。文章从学生们似乎无一例外地厌恶皮普这一观察出发，解释了如何通过诠释学阅读这部小说，将其作为我自己人生的一堂课，帮助我反思我长期以来对自己的工人阶级童年和我自己的艾斯特拉所感到的复杂的羞耻感。最后，我想说的是，虽然《远大前程》的结局都不是特别圆满，但小说的结尾却传达了一个低沉但充满希望的信息，那就是尽管被弯曲和破碎，但仍能找到满足、和平甚至快乐

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Dickens and His Publics 狄更斯和他的公众

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920199

Michelle Allen-Emerson, Annette Federico

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: <ul> <li> Dickens and His Publics </li> <li> Michelle Allen-Emerson (bio) and Annette Federico (bio) </li> </ul> When Charles Dickens died on 7 June 1870, the outpouring of public feeling all but drowned out the tempered judgements of Victorian literary critics and reviewers: it was not the moment for “exact criticism,” as Anthony Trollope put it. “It is fatuous to condemn that as deficient in art which has been so full of art as to captivate all men,” Trollope conceded. Dickens “could measure the reading public, – probably taking his measure of it unconsciously, – and knew what the public wanted of him.” Such an intuitive connection with masses of people is so rare that “no critic is justified in putting aside the consideration of that circumstance” (Collins 322–25). Two years later, after the publication of John Forster’s biography of Dickens and as reassessments of the novels started to heat up, George Henry Lewes also recognized that readers’ affection for Dickens’s work made him a difficult case for the literary critic whose job is to form judgments, or, in Lewes’s phrase, “to pronounce absolute verdicts” on aesthetic grounds (142). That is not the right way to go about it with Dickens. Those critics who tried to find reasons for their objections to Dickens’s art, wrote Lewes, simply “failed to recognise the supreme powers which ensured his triumph in spite of all defects” (154). We latter-day critics (and readers of Dickens Quarterly) have been trying to define and describe, nail down and spell out, the nature of Dickens’s “supreme powers” – we almost wrote his superpowers! – in our professional discourse for a century and a quarter, in almost 800 academic books and close to 5,000 scholarly articles in many languages. That seems like a lot of ink, a lot of research, a lot of argumentation. But these numbers do not come close to conveying the reach of Dickens’s appeal to readers whose writing and thinking about Dickens does not get listed in academic databases – books for the educated general public, such as John Mullan’s The Artful Dickens or Lee Jackson’s Dickensland (to name two recent ones), books for children and young adults, literary companions for readers getting started with Dickens, memoirs and recollections, books in cultural studies (such as Nick Hornby’s Dickens and Prince), illustrated books, coffee table books [End Page 6] (Hillary Macaskill’s Charles Dickens at Home), celebrations (Simon Callow’s books), histories and retellings (Les Standiford’s The Man Who Invented Christmas), and adaptations of the novels in all media. As Zadie Smith remarked recently in an essay in The New Yorker, it seems as if Dickens is everywhere, “like weather.” Indeed, Dickens is more ubiquitous outside of

以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：狄更斯和他的公众米歇尔-艾伦-埃默森（简历）和安妮特-费德里科（简历当查尔斯-狄更斯于 1870 年 6 月 7 日去世时，汹涌的公众情绪几乎淹没了维多利亚时代文学评论家和评论家们有节制的评判：正如安东尼-特罗洛普（Anthony Trollope）所说，这不是进行 "精确批评 "的时刻。"特罗洛普承认："如果谴责一部充满艺术魅力的作品缺乏艺术性，那是愚蠢的。狄更斯 "能够衡量阅读大众--可能是在无意识中衡量的--并且知道大众对他的要求"。这种与大众的直觉联系是如此罕见，以至于 "任何评论家都没有理由将这种情况搁置一边"（柯林斯 322-25）。两年后，在约翰-福斯特的《狄更斯传》出版后，随着对狄更斯小说的重新评价开始升温，乔治-亨利-卢斯也认识到，读者对狄更斯作品的喜爱使他成为文学评论家的一个难题，而文学评论家的工作就是形成判断，或者用卢斯的话说，根据审美理由 "宣布绝对的裁决"（142）。对于狄更斯，这样做是不对的。卢斯写道，那些试图为自己反对狄更斯的艺术寻找理由的批评家，只是 "没有认识到确保他克服一切缺陷取得胜利的最高力量"（154）。我们这些后世的评论家（以及《狄更斯季刊》的读者）一直在试图定义和描述、确定和阐明狄更斯的 "最高力量"--我们几乎可以写成他的超能力--的性质！- 在我们的专业论述中，在近 800 本学术著作和近 5,000 篇多种语言的学术论文中，我们已经尝试定义和描述狄更斯 "至高无上的力量"--我们几乎把他写成了 "超能力！"--的性质长达一个季度。这似乎是大量的笔墨、大量的研究、大量的论证。但这些数字还不足以表达狄更斯对读者的吸引力有多大，这些读者对狄更斯的写作和思考并没有被列入学术数据库--面向受过教育的普通大众的书籍，如约翰-穆兰（John Mullan）的《艺术的狄更斯》（The Artful Dickens）或李-杰克逊（Lee Jackson）的《狄更斯乐园》（Dickensland）（仅列举最近出版的两本书），面向儿童和青少年的书籍，面向开始接触狄更斯的读者的文学伴侣、回忆录和回忆录、文化研究类图书（如尼克-霍恩比的《狄更斯与王子》）、图文并茂的图书、咖啡桌图书 [End Page 6]（希拉里-马卡斯基尔的《查尔斯-狄更斯在家中》）、庆祝活动（西蒙-卡洛的图书）、历史和重述（莱斯-斯坦迪福德的《发明圣诞节的人》），以及各种媒体对小说的改编。正如扎迪-史密斯（Zadie Smith）最近在《纽约客》上发表的一篇文章中所说，狄更斯似乎无处不在，"就像天气一样"。事实上，狄更斯在学术界外比在学术界内更无处不在--在 21 世纪，我们想不出有多少经典作家可以这样说。今天，狄更斯拥有如此众多的公众，试图将他牢牢禁锢在 "学术专长 "的范围内既不可能，也不可取，正如我们希望本期《DQ》特刊所展示的那样，至少不是一直如此。此外，我们认为，在我们下班后的非专业生活中，狄更斯作为父母、伴侣、学生、朋友、教师和同事所扮演的角色，也会让学术研究受益匪浅。在本刊上发表不同风格的评论性文章--回忆录、讲故事、对话--可能是朝着刷新关于狄更斯的重要性和持续性、我们与他之间的困难、他的诱惑以及他在这个特殊时期对我们这些读者的诸多要求的对话迈出的一小步。2022 年夏天，在伦敦城市大学主办的狄更斯学会 "狄更斯及其公众 "研讨会的最后一天，我们萌生了出版这期特刊的想法。在狄更斯漫步之旅结束后，几位研讨会与会者举起一品脱，讨论了我们在会议上听到的论文、我们的教学工作以及我们离开伦敦后的计划。如今，一年多过去了，酒馆里的那一个小时仿佛是一个神奇的中场休息，一个精明的会议参加者和专业学者放松地融入平凡生活的时刻......

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The Dickens Checklist 狄更斯清单

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920212

Dominic Rainsford

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: <ul> <li> The Dickens Checklist </li> <li> Dominic Rainsford (bio) </li> </ul> The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online resources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a year. <h2>________</h2> <h2>Secondary Sources: Bibliography and Reference</h2> Palmer, Scott V. Charles Dickens on Screen. Cypress Hills Press, 2023. <h2>Secondary Sources: Biography and Criticism</h2> Boman, Charlotte. “In Search of ‘Some Bond of Union’: Picturing the Domestic Reading Circle in Victorian Photographs.” Picturing the Reader: Reading and Representation in the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Beth Palmer et al., Peter Lang Publishing, 2022, pp. 163–188. Writing and Culture in the Long Nineteenth Century, 11. [Section: “Pictures ‘tell a story’: Dickens and At-Home Photography”] Bowles, Hugo. “The Poetics of Mrs Gamp’s Conversation – Are They Dickens’s ‘Slips of the Pen’?” Bridging the Gap between Conversation Analysis and Poetics: Studies in Talk-in-Interaction and Literature Twenty-Five Years after Jefferson, edited by Raymond F. Person et al., Routledge, 2022, pp. 119–39. Capuano, Peter J. Dickens’s Idiomatic Imagination: The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language. Cornell UP, 2023. Chen Houliang. “‘To Have No Work to Do [Is] Strange’: The Performance of Leisure in Little Dorrit.” Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 45, no. 4, Sept. 2023, pp. 313–28. Conary, Jennifer. “Dickensian Departures: Innovation and Originality in G. W. M. Reynolds’s Pickwick Abroad.” G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830–1870, edited by Jennifer Conary and Mary L. Shannon, Routledge, 2023, pp. 27–51. Dickens, Gerald. My Life on the Road with A Christmas Carol. Bumblebee Books, 2023. Dickens Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 4, Dec. 2023. [Tara Moore, “Pickwick and Scrooge: Two Excellent Men of Business,” pp. 413–35; Joshua Dobbs, “‘It was a strange figure’: The Fairies of A Christmas Carol,” pp. 436–56; Sara Martín, “Jaggers the Plotter and the Pretty Child: Masculine Vulnerability to Beauty in Great Expectations,” pp. 457–75; William F. Long, “‘The wife who has plagued him … & … is rather lunatical’: A Contemporary Private Reference to the Dickens Scandal,” pp. 476–87; Natalie J. McKnight, review of Charles Dickens, Death and Christmas, by Robert L. Patten, pp. 488–90; Tamsin Evernden, review of The Ways of the Word: Episodes in Verbal Attention, by Garrett Stewart, pp. 490–93; Christian Lehmann, review of Reading Bodies in

以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：狄更斯清单》 Dominic Rainsford（简历）《狄更斯清单》记录新出版物、博士论文以及对狄更斯研究具有重要意义的在线资源，每期杂志都会刊登。自第 37 卷第 1 期（2020 年 3 月）以来的清单可在 dickenssociety.org 上查阅，每年更新一次。________ 二手资料：Bibliography and Reference Palmer, Scott V. Charles Dickens on Screen.Cypress Hills Press, 2023.二手资料：传记与评论 Boman, Charlotte."In Search of 'Some Bond of Union'：在维多利亚时代的照片中描绘家庭阅读圈"。Picturing the Reader：贝丝-帕尔默等编，彼得-朗出版社，2022 年，第 163-188 页。漫长十九世纪的写作与文化》，11 [章节："图片'讲述故事'：狄更斯与居家摄影"] Bowles, Hugo."The Poetics of Mrs Gamp's Conversation - Are They Dickens's 'Slips of the Pen'?" Bowles, Hugo.弥合会话分析与诗学之间的差距：杰斐逊去世二十五年后的谈话互动与文学研究》，雷蒙德-F-普林等编，Routledge, 2022 年，第 119-39 页。Capuano, Peter J. Dickens's Idiomatic Imagination：The Inimitable and Victorian Body Language.Cornell UP, 2023.Chen Houliang."'没有工作可做[是]奇怪的'：小杜丽特》中休闲的表现"。Nineteenth-Century Contexts, vol. 45, no.4, Sept. 2023, pp.Conary, Jennifer."Dickensian Departures：G. W. M. Reynolds 的《匹克威克外传》中的创新与独创性"。G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined：G. W. M. Reynolds Reimagined: Studies in Authorship, Radicalism, and Genre, 1830-1870, edited by Jennifer Conary and Mary L. Shannon, Routledge, 2023, pp.Dickens, Gerald.My Life on the Road with A Christmas Carol.Bumblebee Books, 2023.Dickens Quarterly, vol. 40, no.4, Dec. 2023.[Tara Moore，"Pickwick and Scrooge：两个出色的商人"，第 413-35 页；Joshua Dobbs，"'这是一个奇怪的人物'：圣诞颂歌》中的仙女"，第 436-56 页；Sara Martín，"阴谋家 Jaggers 和漂亮的孩子：远大前程》中男性对美的脆弱"，第 457-75 页；William F. Long，"'困扰他的妻子......&......相当疯狂'：狄更斯丑闻的当代私人参考资料"，第 476-87 页；Natalie J. McKnight，Robert L. Patten 著《Charles Dickens, Death and Christmas》评论，第 488-90 页；Tamsin Evernden，《The Ways of the Word》评论：加勒特-斯图尔特（Garrett Stewart）著，第 490-93 页；克里斯蒂安-莱曼（Christian Lehmann）著，评论《维多利亚时代小说中的身体阅读》（Reading Bodies in Victorian Fiction）：493-96页；Renata Goroshkova, review of The Family Novel in Russia and England, 1800-1880, by Anna A. Berman, pp.497-99；Adam Abraham, review of Screening Charles Dickens：500-02；Claire Wood，"狄更斯学会第五十四届年会"，第 505-07 页；Lydia Craig，"狄更斯学会 2022 年 9 月 1 日至 2023 年 8 月 31 日财政年度财务主管报告"，第 508-09 页；Dominic Rainsford，"狄更斯清单"，第 515-18 页。］狄更斯文集》，第 119 卷，第 2 部分，第 520 期，2023 年秋。520, Autumn 2023.[Emily Bell，"From the Editor"，pp.139-40；Shimpei Ichinose，"Hidden Anti-Confederacy Views in Great Expectations：狄更斯与美国内战"，第 142-56 页；Fernando Castanedo，"《远大前程》和《仲夏夜之梦》中的焦虑等待"，第 157-61 页；Jerome Meckier，"Pip Confides in Biddy："，第 162-66 页；William F. Long，"'也许这并不重要，但不妨说得正确些'：《智者笑话再探》"，第 167-81 页；Robert C. Hanna，"狄更斯 1833-36 年原创出版物中戏剧性大众娱乐的传记含义"，第 182-93 页；Atif Abdullah，"Rodney Bennett 的《唐比父子》（1983 年）：经济资本、交易关系和妇女的（不）地位"，第 194-215 页；Don Richard Cox、Malcolm Andrews 和 Brian Lake 致编辑的信，第 216-18 页；Lydia Craig 评论 Robert Douglas-Fairhurst 所著《转折点：1851 年--改变查尔斯-狄更斯和世界的一年》，第 219-22 页；Helen Kingstone 评论《暮色历史》：卡米拉-卡西迪（Camilla Cassidy）著，第 222-25 页；杰里米-帕罗特（Jeremy Parrott）著，评论《...

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Hair Apparent; or, Dickens's Public Hair 明显的头发；或狄更斯的公共头发

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920208

Natalie McKnight

Abstract:

Dickens plays off the strange hybrid nature of hair throughout his fiction. Hair is both alive and dead, public but also private, part of and not part of the body. Dickens uses hair to create both comedy and pathos, and it projects key aspects of many characters while simultaneously defying their control. Through hair, Dickens raises epistemological questions about the human tendency to categorize the world in binaries, and he suggests that all such categories misrepresent reality and fail to capture the complexity of human experience.

摘要:狄更斯在他的小说中处处体现出头发奇特的混合特性。头发既是活的，又是死的；既是公共的，又是私人的；既是身体的一部分，又不是身体的一部分。狄更斯用头发来创造喜剧和悲情，它投射出许多人物的关键方面，同时又违抗他们的控制。通过头发，狄更斯提出了认识论上的问题，即人类倾向于将世界进行二元分类，他认为所有这些分类都歪曲了现实，未能捕捉到人类经验的复杂性。

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Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Lawrence Goldman (review) 维多利亚人与数字：Lawrence Goldman 著的《十九世纪英国的统计与社会》（评论）

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920211

Dominic Rainsford

In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: Reviewed by: <ul> <li> Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain by Lawrence Goldman </li> <li> Dominic Rainsford (bio) </li> </ul> Lawrence Goldman. Victorians and Numbers: Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain. Oxford UP, 2022. Pp. lxiii + 371. £40.49. ISBN 978-0-19-284774-4 (hb). One might be forgiven for expecting this to be a very dull book. That is certainly the impression created by the unsmiling faces of Ada Lovelace (datalogical prodigy and Byron’s daughter), William Farr (of the General Register Office; subsequently President of the Statistical Society of London), Florence Nightingale, Prince Albert, and Charles Babbage (computer pioneer), which ponderously adorn the dust-jacket. However, it contains a wide range of information and ideas, much of it potentially useful to Dickens scholars, and the good news is that Goldman’s reader will require no “technical knowledge of statistics” (xxxviii). Following a long Prologue, which jumps ahead to the “Zenith” of Victorian statistics in 1860, the book retreats chronologically and settles into a methodical five-part structure. In Part I, Goldman describes the background to Victorian statistics in the rudimentary “political arithmetic” of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In Part II, he describes the establishment of influential statistical societies in the 1820s and 1830s in Cambridge, Manchester, and Clerkenwell. Part III is devoted to chapters on the principal “intellectual influences” on the turn to statistics, including Babbage and Lovelace, Richard Jones (professor of Political Economy at King’s College, London), William Whewell (Cambridge polymath and inventor of the term “scientist”), Adolphe Quetelet (Belgian statistician [End Page 127] and reformer), Alexander von Humboldt, and – as “opposition” – Disraeli, Ruskin, Carlyle, and our man Dickens. Part IV, on “Statistics at Mid-Century,” describes the growing acceptance and practical use of statistics, and especially in the field of medicine – where it could demonstrably be linked to saving lives. Part V contrasts “Conservative Nationalism” with “Liberal Internationalism” at the International Statistical Congresses of the 1850s, 60s and 70s. “Conservative Nationalism” is thereafter shown to develop into something more sinister, and for a time at least this is “The End of the Statistical Movement,” as Francis Galton introduces a far higher level of mathematical sophistication but reveals his “moral inadequacy,” turning from the desire to use numbers to understand and ameliorate society to eugenics, racism, and speculative social engineering. A brief concluding chapter takes us from the nineteenth century to our own time, “From Statistics to Big Data, 1822–2022.”

以下是内容的简要摘录，以代替摘要：评论者：维多利亚人与数字：劳伦斯-戈德曼（Lawrence Goldman）著《十九世纪英国的统计与社会》（Statistics and Society in Nineteenth Century Britain），多米尼克-雷恩斯福德（Dominic Rainsford）（简历）。维多利亚人与数字：牛津大学出版社，2022 年。牛津大学出版社，2022 年。pp.£40.49.ISBN 978-0-19-284774-4 (hb)。也许有人会认为这是一本非常沉闷的书。艾达-拉芙蕾丝（Ada Lovelace，数据学神童，拜伦的女儿）、威廉-法尔（William Farr，总登记局成员，后任伦敦统计学会主席）、弗洛伦斯-南丁格尔、阿尔伯特亲王和查尔斯-巴贝奇（Charles Babbage，计算机先驱）等人不苟言笑的面孔给人留下的印象就是如此。不过，该书包含了大量信息和观点，其中许多对狄更斯学者可能有用，好在戈德曼的读者不需要 "统计学方面的技术知识"（xxxviii）。冗长的 "序言 "跳到了 1860 年维多利亚时期统计学的 "顶点"，之后，该书按时间顺序后退，形成了有条不紊的五部分结构。在第一部分中，戈德曼描述了维多利亚时期统计的背景，即 17 世纪末和 18 世纪的初级 "政治算术"。在第二部分中，他介绍了 19 世纪 20 年代和 30 年代在剑桥、曼彻斯特和克勒肯威尔成立的有影响力的统计协会。第三部分是关于统计学转向的主要 "知识分子影响 "的章节，包括巴贝奇和洛夫莱斯、理查德-琼斯（伦敦国王学院政治经济学教授）、威廉-惠威尔（剑桥大学多面手和 "科学家 "一词的发明者）、阿道夫-奎特莱（比利时统计学家 [第127页完] 和改革家）、亚历山大-冯-洪堡，以及作为 "反对派 "的迪斯雷利、罗斯金、卡莱尔和我们的狄更斯。第四部分是 "世纪中叶的统计学"，描述了统计学日益被接受和实际使用的情况，尤其是在医学领域--在这一领域，统计学与拯救生命有着明显的联系。第五部分对比了 19 世纪 50 年代、60 年代和 70 年代国际统计大会上的 "保守民族主义 "和 "自由国际主义"。此后，"保守民族主义 "被证明发展成了更邪恶的东西，至少在一段时间内，这是 "统计运动的终结"，因为弗朗西斯-高尔顿引入了更高水平的数学复杂性，但却暴露了他的 "道德不足"，从利用数字理解和改善社会的愿望转向了优生学、种族主义和投机性的社会工程。简短的结语篇章 "从统计到大数据，1822-2022 年 "将我们从十九世纪带到了当代。纵观全书，戈德曼将重点放在了杰出的个人思想家和集体倡议之间，例如统计协会的成立和解散，以及国际大会的召开。也许最生动、最激动人心的段落出现在序言 "统计的顶峰 "中：1860 年伦敦国际统计大会"。在这里，戈德曼讨论了阿尔伯特亲王在大会上的演讲（这可能是他最后一次也是最好的一次 "公开演讲"[xlv]）。他在讨论 "统计研究是否鼓励哲学上的决定论，或这个时代有时所说的'宿命论'"（li）时，"表现出了相当大的智慧勇气"。阿尔伯特 "指出，反复发生的事件并不是支配自然和行为的不可避免的规律，而只是概率"；"自然允许不确定性；男人和女人可以行使自由意志和意志"（李）。在这次国际会议上，他谈到 "各国相互依存，共同进步"；他的演讲 "是自由的、进步的、国际主义的、普遍主义的。他的演讲 "是自由的、进步的、国际主义的、普遍主义的，因此也是统计运动本身的目标"(lii)。这可能部分归因于少年阿尔贝的数学老师是阿道夫-凯特莱（Adolphe Quetelet）（lii-liii）。无论如何，他是戈德曼希望我们欣赏的维多利亚时期统计学的典范：理性、外向、理想主义、诚实和人道。此外--我认为这可能是贯穿全书的一股微妙的暗流--他也是对 21 世纪英国狭隘和不自由倾向的一种含蓄的斥责。弗洛伦斯-南丁格尔（Florence Nightingale）也参加了大会，或者说几乎参加了："在当天的辩论之前，她邀请主要与会者到她在伦敦的家中共进早餐。他们相互交谈，而她则在拉开的窗帘的另一侧倾听，除了她在楼上接待的少数几个人之外，其他人既看不到也听不到"（liv）。戈德曼并没有完全...

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Done with Dickens 狄更斯

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920202

Jude Piesse

Abstract:

This article brings a creative–critical approach to bear on my long, and evolving, relationship with Dickens. Through examining the tenacious grip that Dickens has had on my imaginative, emotional, and professional lives, I explore the conundrum of continuing to admire a writer whose ubiquity, personal history, and even style can sometimes cause embarrassment to contemporary publics. In the face of such feelings, and my ambivalence about literary hero-worship, I make a case for Dickens’s unique power and lasting relevance. I explore how Dickens has shaped my creative imagination, education, and work as a university lecturer, and how his writing continues to impact on the lives of friends, family, and students. The article takes the form of a creative–critical personal essay, combining autobiographical accounts of growing up in Dickens’s Kent, and of engaging with Great Expectations at different life stages, with the scholarly perspectives that underpin my publications and university teaching.

摘要:这篇文章以创作批判的方法来探讨我与狄更斯的长期和不断发展的关系。通过研究狄更斯对我的想象力、情感和职业生活的顽强影响，我探讨了继续崇拜一位作家的难题，因为他的无处不在、个人经历甚至风格有时会让当代公众感到尴尬。面对这样的感受，以及我对文学英雄崇拜的矛盾心理，我为狄更斯的独特力量和持久相关性进行了论证。我探讨了狄更斯如何影响了我的创造性想象、教育和大学讲师的工作，以及他的写作如何继续影响着朋友、家人和学生的生活。文章采用了个人创作评论文章的形式，将我在狄更斯笔下的肯特郡成长以及在不同人生阶段与《远大前程》接触的自传体经历，与支撑我的出版物和大学教学的学术观点相结合。

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Teaching and Reading Dickens in Brazil: A Tale of Two Cities as a Case Study 在巴西教读狄更斯：双城记》案例研究

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920206

Marcela Santos Brigida

Abstract:

Taking the experience of teaching Dickens in Brazil as a point of departure, this essay proposes a brief overview of the novelist’s initial reception in the South American country as part of an ongoing investigation of his multi-layered influence on Brazilian culture from the nineteenth century to the present day. Dickens’s impact on Brazilian publishing and pop culture ranges from the many translated editions of his works to his influence over local writers and artists. The second half of the essay produces a case study of teaching Dickens’s A Tale of Two Cities to a class of undergraduate students in Rio de Janeiro, arguing for the importance of allowing students to respond creatively to literary works in an academic setting.

摘要:本文以在巴西教授狄更斯的经历为出发点，简要概述了小说家狄更斯在南美国家最初的接受情况，作为对他从十九世纪至今对巴西文化的多层次影响的持续调查的一部分。狄更斯对巴西出版业和流行文化的影响，既包括其作品的众多翻译版本，也包括他对当地作家和艺术家的影响。文章的后半部分是一个案例研究，内容是向里约热内卢的一个本科生班级教授狄更斯的《双城记》，论证了让学生在学术环境中对文学作品做出创造性反应的重要性。

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"Cancelled" by the Revolution?: The Limits of Celebrity in A Tale of Two Cities 被革命 "取消"？双城记》中名人的局限性

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920207

Elizabeth Bridgham

Abstract:

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.

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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Big Novels for Little Folks: Dickens Adapted, Abridged, and Excerpted for Young Readers 小读者的大小说：狄更斯为小读者改编、删节和摘录的作品

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920201

Kirsten Andersen

Abstract:

Classic novels retold for children have received limited scholarly attention. Often cheaply printed, the interest they arouse is also transient: child readers become adults and either lose interest or move on to the unabridged text. Despite their transience and ephemerality, “classic” novels rewritten for children, especially retellings of Dickens, merit scholarly examination. These retellings appeal to child readers by centring the plots that revolve around child characters, shaping the popular imagination and reception history of these works. Since their initial publication, Dickens’s novels have been adapted, abridged, and anthologized for young readers by editors and publishers with various motives: to profit off Dickens’s fame, to promote literacy, and to support social change. Texts that rewrite “classic” authors like Dickens for young audiences reveal our cultural assumptions and anxieties about literacy.

摘要：为儿童重述的经典小说受到的学术关注有限。它们通常印刷廉价，引起的兴趣也是短暂的：儿童读者长大成人后，要么失去兴趣，要么转而阅读未经删节的文本。尽管它们短暂易逝，但为儿童改写的 "经典 "小说，尤其是狄更斯的复述作品，值得学术界研究。这些重述作品以儿童角色为中心展开情节，从而吸引了儿童读者，塑造了大众对这些作品的想象和接受史。狄更斯的小说自最初出版以来，编辑和出版商出于各种动机：从狄更斯的名声中获利、促进扫盲、支持社会变革等，对其进行了改编、删节和选编。为青少年读者改写狄更斯等 "经典 "作家作品的文本，揭示了我们对扫盲的文化假设和焦虑。

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A Wisdom of the Head and a Wisdom of the Heart: Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture 头脑的智慧与心灵的智慧：狄更斯、迪斯尼和大众文化

IF 0.6 1区文学 0 LITERATURE, BRITISH ISLES

DICKENS QUARTERLY

Pub Date : 2024-02-23 DOI: 10.1353/dqt.2024.a920205

Eric G. Lorentzen

Abstract:

Only by recognizing that Dickens’s novels not only teach us a great deal about Victorian England, but also about our lives in the here and now, can we remain vibrantly one of Dickens’s “publics.” We must transcend the usual “wisdom of the head,” the traditional academic study of his novels, and connect with the “wisdom of the heart” as well, the meaningful student-centred ways that his texts resonate in actual everyday lives – pedagogical advice that Dickens himself famously proffered in Hard Times. In my recent course, “Dickens, Disney, and Popular Culture,” my students and I did just that, discovering both Dickens, and his continuing influence on our lives, together during a memorable semester.

摘要:只有认识到狄更斯的小说不仅教给我们维多利亚时代英国的许多知识，而且也教给我们此时此地的生活许多知识，我们才能充满活力地成为狄更斯的 "大众 "之一。我们必须超越通常的 "头脑智慧"，即对狄更斯小说的传统学术研究，同时与 "心灵智慧 "相联系，即狄更斯的文本在实际日常生活中产生共鸣的以学生为中心的有意义的方式--狄更斯本人在《艰难时世》中提出了著名的教学建议。在我最近开设的 "狄更斯、迪斯尼和大众文化 "课程中，我和我的学生们正是这样做的，在一个难忘的学期里，我们一起发现了狄更斯以及他对我们生活的持续影响。

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