Gillian Piggott

Dickens and Benjamin

Moments of Revelation, Fragments of Modernity

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Produktbeschreibung

Placing the works of Charles Dickens and Walter Benjamin in conversation with one another, Piggott argues that the two writers display a shared vision of modernity. Her analysis of their works shows that both writers demonstrate a decreased confidence in the capacity to experience truth or religious meaning in an increasingly materialist world and both occupy similar positions towards urban modernity and its effect on experience.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Mai 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 395g
• ISBN-13: 9781138108059
• ISBN-10: 1138108057
• Artikelnr.: 57041621

Autorenporträt

Dr Gillian Piggott is currently visiting lecturer at Middlesex University and Associate Lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Part 1 Exquisite Agony
Chapter 101 Part 1 Introduction
Chapter 1 Benjamin, Dickens and Messianism
Chapter 2 The Old Curiosity Shop, Allegory and Trauerspiele
Chapter 102 Part 1 Conclusion
Part 2 Dickens, Benjamin and the City
Chapter 103 Part 2 Introduction
Chapter 3 Experience and Memory
Chapter 4 The Gothic City of the Flâneur and the Crowd
Chapter 104 Conclusion