{"product_id":"9781526174543-spectral-dickens","title":"Spectral Dickens","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Uncanny Forms of Novelistic Characterization\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSpectral Dickens\u003c\/i\u003e posits a spectral dimension of literary character. By analyzing Dickens’ illustrated novels through a frame of ontologically haunted concepts like the Freudian \u003ci\u003euncanny\u003c\/i\u003e, Derridean \u003ci\u003espectrality,\u003c\/i\u003e and the Lacanian \u003ci\u003eReal, \u003c\/i\u003eBove’s work haunts the opposition between fictional character and real person with the uncanniness of literary forms.\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on the recent ontological turn in critical theory, Spectral Dickens explores an aspect of literary character that is neither real nor fictional, but spectral. This work thus provides an in-depth study of the inimitable characters populating Dickens’ illustrated novels using three hauntological concepts: the Freudian uncanny, Derridean spectrality, and the Lacanian real. Thus, while the current discourse on character studies, which revolves around values like realism, depth, and lifelikeness, tends to see characters as mimetic of persons, this book invents new critical concepts to account for non-mimetic forms of characterization. These spectral forms bring to light the important influence of developments in nineteenth-century visual culture, such as the lithography and caricature of Daumier and J.J. Grandville. The spectrality of novelistic characters developed here paves the way for a new understanding of fictional characters in general.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41060177543265,"sku":"9781526174543","price":27.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_28135143.jpg?v=1722340329","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781526174543-spectral-dickens","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}