Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)

Name: Dickens and the Grotesque (Routledge Revivals)
Brand: Taylor & Francis
SKU: 9781138804456
Price: 365.0 NZD
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By Michael Hollington

Series: Routledge Revivals

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Dickens and the Grotesque explores how Charles Dickens employed grotesque elements to unsettle and provoke his Victorian middle-class readers. Michael Hollington examines influences such as popular theatre, caricature, and Gothic traditions, tracing Dickens's evolving use of grotesque imagery throughout his career to deepen the reader's engagement and challenge societal norms.
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Ideal for scholars and readers interested in Victorian literature, literary criticism, and Dickens's artistic techniques within cultural history.

First published in 1984, this title examines the development of a special rhetoric in Dickens’ work, which, by using grotesque effects, challenged the complacency of his middle-class Victorian readers.

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The study begins by exploring definitions of the grotesque and moves on to look at three key aspects that particularly impacted on Dickens’ imagination: popular theatre (especially pantomime), caricature, and the tradition of the Gothic novel.

Michael Hollington traces the development of Dickens’ application of the grotesque from his early work to his late novels, showing how its use becomes more subtle. Dickens and the Grotesque greatly enhances our appreciation of Dickens’ technique, showing the skill with which he used the grotesque to undermine stereotyped responses and encourage his readership to challenge their context.