1st Edition
Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood Mapping the World in Household Words
By Sabine Clemm
Copyright 2009
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
260 Pages
by
Routledge
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Dickens, Journalism, and Nationhood examines Charles Dickens’ weekly family magazine Household Words in order to develop a detailed picture of how the journal negotiated, asserted and simultaneously deconstructed Englishness as a unified (and sometimes unifying) mode of expression. It offers close readings of a wide range of materials that self-consciously focus on the nature... Read more
List of Figures
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One: ‘Amidst the heterogeneous masses’: Household Words and the Great Exhibition of 1851
Chapter Two: (Un-)Englishness and National Character in Household Words
Chapter Three: Household Words’ Treatment of Ireland
Chapter Four: ‘Continental ways and means’: Europe in Household Words
Chapter Five: ‘Interlopers in the East’: Household Words and India
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Sabine Clemm lectures on the nineteenth-century novel, culture, and poetry at the University of Southampton.
"This carefully researched study will interest both scholars of 19th-century history and Dickens spcialists." - J.D. Vann, emeritus, University of North Texas
