Dickens, Violence and the Modern State: Dreams of the Scaffold

by Jeremy Tambling

In a radical reassessment of one of the greatest writers of all time, Dickens, Violence and the Modern State draws on the theories of Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari, in addition to Julia Kristeva and Edward Said, to situate Dickens within the discourses circulating within his society - in particular those associated with modernity. Focussing on Dickens's novels written after 1848, his relationship to modernity can be seen in his treatment of violence,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 033363389X
• ISBN13: 9780333633892
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 237 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"