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Dickens from Shakespeare, Fuseli and Blake: Imagination and Jealousy in Art and Literature book cover

1st Edition

Dickens from Shakespeare, Fuseli and Blake Imagination and Jealousy in Art and Literature

By Jeremy Tambling Copyright 2026
278 Pages 20 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Dickens says he concentrates on 'the romantic side of familiar things', and so highlights the visionary, non-realist, uncanny nature of his writing. This book delves into the sources of that through Shakespeare, and Fuseli, the great artist who imagined scenes from Shakespeare and who created the 'Nightmare', and Blake, friend of Fuseli, and a silent underpresence in nineteenth-century writing. It... Read more

Introduction: ‘Of Imagination All Compact': Shakespeare, Fuseli, Blake, Dickens

PART 1: ON THE FAIRIES    

Chapter 1. Dickens, Fuseli, and Fairies       

Chapter 2. Queen Mab: Old Women and Children in Dickens and Blake    

PART 2: 'THE STORY OF THE NIGHT'       

Chapter 3. The East Wind in the Christmas Books, and Bleak House, and Hamlet       

Chapter 4. Julius Caesar, Macbeth, and ‘Two Dear Friends’ in David Copperfield.           

PART 3: 'FOUL WEATHER'  

Chapter 5. Death on a Pale Horse: The Apocalypse in Bleak House           

Chapter 6. Mudfog    

Chapter 7. Who is Magwitch?: Great Expectations 

PART 4: 'A TEMPEST, BIRTH, AND DEATH'          

Chapter 8. The Islands of Little Dorrit             

Chapter 9. Romance, Death, Resurrection and a Conclusion: Our Mutual Friend and The Mystery of Edwin Drood 

Biography

Jeremy Tambling is a writer and critic working on English and European literature and critical theory. He is formerly Professor of Literature at Manchester University, UK and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong.

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