Dickens, Sexuality and Gender (A Library of Essays on Charles Dickens) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1409430952 ISBN 13: 9781409430957

Publisher: Routledge, 2012

Synopsis

This volume of essays examines Dickens's complex representations of sexuality and gender as well as his use of gender ideologies and sexual and gender differences over the course of his literary career, from his first sketches and early novels to his late works of fiction. The essays approach gender issues in Dickens's writing by focusing on a number of topics: his treatment of gender ideals and transgressions; the intersections and displacements among gender, class and race; the ties between gender and the body, and among gender, voice and language; his depiction of the homosocial and the homoerotic; and the relation between gender and the law. The essays provide an introduction to the most recent approaches to Dickens's fiction in addition to those now considered classic, draw on queer theory and also feature a variety of methodologies, ranging across feminist, historicist and psychoanalytic methods of interpretation. The collection represents the best of previously published research by Dickens's scholars and illuminates for students and scholars alike the meaning of gender in such novels as The Pickwick Papers, Dombey and Son, and Our Mutual Friend.

About this title

Review:

'... a mandatory resource for today's scholars and upper-level college students.' Dickens Quarterly

About the Author:

Lillian Nayder is Professor and Chair of English at Bates College, USA

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1409430952
• ISBN 13: 9781409430957
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 664
• Editor: Nayder Lillian