1st Edition
Dickensian Affects Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity
Introduction: What a thing it is to have Power
One: From Sentiment to Affect: Toward a Theory of Affective Form
Two: Oliver Twist: Domination, Violence, and the End of Slavery
Three: The Old Curiosity Shop: Love, Anxiety, and Inheritance
Four: David Copperfield: Trust, Surprise, and the Call Loan System
Five: Great Expectations: Shame, Suspense, and the Volunteer Forces
Conclusion: Dickensian Affects in the Future Tense
Biography
Joshua Gooch is an Associate Professor of English at D’Youville College in Buffalo, New York. His research focuses on intersections of work, power, and aesthetics in literature and film, particularly in relation to cultures with financialized economies. His monograph The Victorian Novel, Service Work, and the Nineteenth-Century Economy (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015) examines the Victorian novel’s role in representing and shaping the service sector’s emergence.
