Dickens from Shakespeare, Fuseli and Blake

Imagination and Jealousy in Art and Literature
1. Auflage 2026
ISBN: 978-1-041-19405-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Routledge Studies in Nineteenth Century Literature

Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare and who created the 'Nightmare', and Blake, friend of Fuseli, and a silent underpresence in nineteenth-century writing. It provides readings of the Christmas Books, David Copperfield, Bleak House, Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, and Our Mutual Friend in the light of Shakespeare, Fuseli, and Blake. While concentrating on the figure of the marginalised beggar, and the criminal, and the vagrant, so finding a social history between Shakespeare and Dickens's time, it reads literary texts in the light of critical theory, using Blanchot, and Derrida, and Deleuze to illuminate the text and the power of writing within Shakespeare, Blake, and Dickens.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tambling, Jeremy

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Sprachwissenschaft Schreiben und Publizieren, Kreatives Schreiben
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: ‘Of Imagination All Compact': Shakespeare, Fuseli, Blake, Dickens

PART 1: ON THE FAIRIES

Chapter 1. Dickens, Fuseli, and Fairies

Chapter 2. Queen Mab: Old Women and Children in Dickens and Blake

PART 2: 'THE STORY OF THE NIGHT'

Chapter 3. The East Wind in the Christmas Books, and Bleak House, and Hamlet

Chapter 4. Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and ‘Two Dear Friends’ in David Copperfield.

PART 3: 'FOUL WEATHER'

Chapter 5. Death on a Pale Horse: The Apocalypse in Bleak House

Chapter 6. Mudfog

Chapter 7. Who is Magwitch?: Great Expectations

PART 4: 'A TEMPEST, BIRTH, AND DEATH'

Chapter 8. The Islands of Little Dorrit

Chapter 9. Romance, Death, Resurrection and a Conclusion: Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood

Über Autor(innen)

Jeremy Tambling is a writer and critic working on English and European literature and critical theory. He is formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.