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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.
Contents
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
