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Dickens and Landscape Discourse
Jane Helen Berard
出版
Peter Lang
, 2007
主題
Literary Criticism / General
Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
ISBN
0820450049
9780820450049
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=QRseZghYRpQC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
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.