{"title":"David Copperfield’s Moods","authors":"Joel Simundich","doi":"10.1525/rep.2022.159.1.1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This article advocates reading for moods, moments in literary texts that draw attention to textual forms conditioning the experiential parameters of narrative. Drawing from Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s reception aesthetics, I demonstrate how the normative critical history of Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel David Copperfield is a product of the novel’s delimitation of its horizons of expectation and structuration of contingency. I then link these delimited horizons to the accepted austerity politics of academic labor today.","PeriodicalId":47353,"journal":{"name":"Representations","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.9000,"publicationDate":"2022-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Representations","FirstCategoryId":"90","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2022.159.1.1","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"CULTURAL STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This article advocates reading for moods, moments in literary texts that draw attention to textual forms conditioning the experiential parameters of narrative. Drawing from Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s reception aesthetics, I demonstrate how the normative critical history of Charles Dickens’s 1850 novel David Copperfield is a product of the novel’s delimitation of its horizons of expectation and structuration of contingency. I then link these delimited horizons to the accepted austerity politics of academic labor today.
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An interdisciplinary journal edited by renowned scholars, Representations publishes trend-setting articles and criticism in a wide variety of fields in the humanities. In addition to special topical issues, tributes, and forums, inside you’ll find insightful coverage of: •The Body, Gender, and Sexuality •Culture and Law •Empire, Imperialism, and The New World •History and Memory •Narrative and Poetics •National Identities •Politics and Aesthetics •Philosophy and Religion •Race and Ethnicity •Science Studies •Society, Class, and Power •Visual Culture