Titlebook: Dickens, Violence and the Modern State; Dreams of the Scaffo Jeremy Tambling Book 1995 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishe

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From , to Governor Eyre, or , to ,igure, ends up by re-centring the text it was supposed to take out of the metropolitan context. As an example, take Suvendrini Perera, discussing . in her book . and linking it with De Quincey’s opium-eating.

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Introduction: Dickens and Dreams of the Scaffold,ortant reference point, and the main one for Baudelaire. I refer to the scaffold for its suggestion of props and supports, going round a building to keep it up, like the props round Mrs Clennam’s house, or the piles that are gradually letting the old manufactory where Monks receives Mr and Mrs Bumbl

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,‘An Impersonation of the Wintry Eighteen-hundred and Forty-Six’: ,word ‘modernist’ in English and identified him with railways and railway power, which are central to .. The reference in that novel to the railway’s ‘mighty course of civilisation and improvement’(., 6.65) fits with Asa Briggs’s singling out the word ‘improvement’ as a key word for the historical pe

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,‘A Paralysed Dumb Witness’: Allegory in ,ems an obvious subject: his reliance on the ‘humours’ mode of writing associated with Jonson and Bunyan makes it already tendentially allegorical. But that mode of writing is associated with unitary meanings, with stability and closure and the assigning of fixed subject-positions. Allegory as an oth

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Dickens and Dostoevsky: Capital Punishment in , and ,ublic executions, which were outlawed during his life, in 1868, just as the number of offences for which hanging could take place was reduced from 200 in 1820 to two by 1861: either treason or murder. The abolitionist movement, associated with Bentham and the Utilitarians, newly empowered through th

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From , to Governor Eyre, or , to ,s, for example Edward Said’s in reading ., find imperialism the other scene of their domestic setting and politics. Texts become complicit, in their silence or half-revelations, with imperialist violence, or, in a deconstructivist move based on this, they show the metropolitan centre of imperialism

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