Abstract

Part 1 Bodies: Dickens's cryptic church - drawing on Pictures from Italy, John Schad Dickens through Blanchot - the nightmare fascination of a world without interiority, Timothy Clark our mutual Freud, Royle. Part 2 Desires: pure Oliver - or, representation without agency, Richard Dellamora the avuncular and beyond - family (melo)drama in Nicholas Nickelby, Helena Michie nobody's fault - the scope of the negative in Little Dorrit, Patricia Ingham. Part 3 Histories: literary careers, death and the body politics of Copperfield, Linda M. Shires past and present - Bleak House and A Child's History of England, John Lucas another day gone and I'm deeper in - Dickens and the debt of the everyday, Diane Elam. Part 4 Others: Babel unbuilding - the anti-archi rhetoric of Martin Chuzzlewit, Steven Connor Dickens's idle men, David Trotter the topography of jealousy in Our Mutual Friend, J. Hillis Miller.

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