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Dickens And Empire: Discourses Of Class, Race And Coloniamlism In The Works Of Charles Dickens (Nineteenth Century) [Hardcover]

Grace Moore (Author)

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Publication Date: November 30, 2004 | ISBN-10: 0754634124 | ISBN-13: 978-0754634126

Dickens and Empire offers a reevaluation of Charles Dickens's imaginative engagement with the British Empire throughout his career. Employing postcolonial theory alongside readings of Dickens's novels, journalism and personal correspondence, it explores his engagement with Britain's imperial holdings as imaginative spaces onto which he offloaded a number of pressing domestic and personal problems, thus creating an entangled discourse between race and class. Drawing upon a wealth of primary material, it offers a radical reassessment of the writer's stance on racial matters. In the past Dickens has been dismissed as a dogged and sustained racist from the 1850s until the end of his life; but here author Grace Moore reappraises The Noble Savage, previously regarded as a racist tract. Examining it side by side with a series of articles by Lord Denman in The Chronicle, which condemned the staunch abolitionist Dickens as a supporter of slavery, Moore reveals that the tract is actually an ironical riposte. This finding facilitates a review and reassessment of Dickens's controversial outbursts during the Sepoy Rebellion of 1857, and demonstrates that his views on racial matters were a good deal more complex than previous critics have suggested. Moore's analysis of a number of pre- and post-Mutiny articles calling for reform in India shows that Dickens, as their publisher, would at least have been aware of the grievances of the Indian people, and his journal's sympathy toward them is at odds with his vitriolic responses to the insurrection. This first sustained analysis of Dickens and his often problematic relationship to the British Empire provides fresh readings of a number of Dickens texts, in particular A Tale of Two Cities. The work also presents a more complicated but balanced view of one of the most famous figures in Victorian literature.

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Hardcover: 210 pages
Publisher: Ashgate Pub Ltd (November 30, 2004)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0754634124
ISBN-13: 978-0754634126
Product Dimensions: 6.1 x 9.1 inches
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A Tale Of Two Cities by Charles Dickens on 20 pages
Little Dorrit (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 14 pages
The Pickwick Papers (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 13 pages
Dombey and Son (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 12 pages
The Mystery of Edwin Drood (Penguin Classics) by Charles Dickens on 10 pages

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Victorian Crime, Madness and Sensation (Nineteenth Century Series) by Andrew Maunder on page 206, and Back Matter

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