Dickens and Landscape Discourse
©2007
Monographs
X,
188 Pages
Series:
Studies in Nineteenth-Century British Literature, Volume 16
Summary
Dickens and Landscape Discourse is a contextual study, offering valuable insights into the significance of geographical and social placement in nineteenth-century literature. Jane H. Berard considers landscape contexts available to Dickens, such as topographical poetry, antiquarianism, tourism, John Britton’s Beauties of Wiltshire, and the landscape discourse in Dickens’ other works to open up a reading of Martin Chuzzlewit (1843-44), set in Wiltshire. Though Dickens can be seen reflecting or resisting the value-laden discourses embedded in his landscapes, he communicates to his readers of Martin Chuzzlewit through an interactive, oppositional, and subversive social discourse to expose a landscape of death and the Victorians’ struggle for control over their situation.
Details
- Pages
- X, 188
- Publication Year
- 2007
- ISBN (Hardcover)
- 9780820450049
- Language
- English
- Keywords
- The life and adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit Landschaft (Motiv) Chuzzlewit, Martin Romantic Landscape Poetry Hillforts Wiltshire Britton, John American Note Dickens, Charles
- Published
- New York, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, Oxford, Wien, 2007. X, 188 pp.