Sadrin Anny, Anny Sadrin

Parentage and Inheritance in the Novels of Charles Dickens

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Dickens's plots and the process of succession, based on the inheritance of looks, name and property.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 276g
• ISBN-13: 9780521172325
• ISBN-10: 0521172322
• Artikelnr.: 31385496

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: to have or not to be
1. Parentage and inheritance: in the name of the father, mothers and daughters, fathers in heaven, sons on earth
2. Domestic and national: Dickens and son, the holy family
3. The parish boy's progress: a pilgrimage to origins
4. The sons of Dombey: a daughter after all? The sons of Dombeyism
5. Nemo's daughter and her inheritance of shame
6. 'Nobody's fault' or the inheritance of guilt: nobody, everybody, somebody
7. Dickens's disinherited boy and his great expectations: bastard or foundling? From tale to fable
8. Inheritance or death: money and origins, death in effigy, the holy sacricifice, the alchemist
Conclusion: Oedipus or Telemachus?