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{"title":"The Afterlife of Enclosure: British Realism, Character, and the Commons by Carolyn Lesjak (review)","authors":"Iain Crawford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904847","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904847","url":null,"abstract":"warrants more attention than it receives here. That mystery derives in large part from the arcane networks in which each character forms a central node, a mystery which is compounded by professional decorums of gentlemanly reserve – a decorum in keeping with the role of “confidential clerk.” That mystery in turn amplifies the anxieties associated with the circulation of money and credit, as worries about far-reaching, seemingly impersonal financial markets come to be incarnated in the volatility of deeply personal relationships. Such mystery may or may not be charged with transgressive sexuality, as it clearly is (very differently) in Heep and Carker, but not at all clearly in Lorry and Harmon. The search for the erotically “queer,” unfortunately, tends to cloud both these distinctions and the larger structural importance of the characters, both within the financial networks they represent and within the novels where they appear. Dobbins does helpfully alert us to the affective complexity of finance in Dickens’s novels, and thereby enriches a topic that has long been recognized as a central concern of his fiction. But her study also brings home how very elusive the queer can be.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45449651","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Queer Economic Dissidence and Victorian Literature by Meg Dobbins (review)","authors":"J. Adams","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904846","url":null,"abstract":"biblical figures such as Jacob and Jonah, and eventually even ventriloquizes Jesus to paradoxically teach his readers a philosophy of paganism and pantheism. Considering the fact that Goethe’s Italian Journey is commonly hailed as the precursor of Wagner’s and Nietzsche’s radical aestheticism, it is surprising to see that Goethe makes ample use of biblical patterns and at one point, around Easter, is not even loath to see himself transfigured like Christ who is not recognized by his disciples at Emmaus. By the end of this slim volume, the reader is at a loss to find a reliable answer to the question of what induces an author to re-publish essays on Goethe and Dickens in German with a small, marginalized sub-publisher in Baden-Baden. Despite the tendency of some of the essays to be rather long-winded, they are refreshingly knowledgeable and thought-provoking, and thus it might have been more sensible if the author had taken the time to re-arrange the book, to put some effort into editorial updating and to have shaped it into an English publication for the benefit of a wider international audience. Dickens’s hitherto neglected German side thus remains a topic that is still waiting for a wider platform.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43853980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dickens Checklist","authors":"D. Rainsford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904849","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904849","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45822481","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Boz, New York and a Temperance Aphorism","authors":"William F. Long","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904843","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904843","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Visiting America in 1842, Dickens found the problem of drunkenness in the process of being vigorously addressed. He was questioned about the prevalence of alcohol consumption in his fiction and criticized for an inferred less than totally serious regard for America’s efforts to confront the problem by promoting abstinence. His response was to question the logic and potential effectiveness of that approach. He reacted similarly to such an approach at home, consistently reiterating the view that there was “such a thing as Use without Abuse” in personal correspondence, and, sometimes coupled to arguments for moderation in other matters, in his journalism. During his 1842 visit, declining in a previously uncollected letter an invitation to attend a temperance-observing event in New York, he instead sent a striking aphorism, which thereafter appeared in temperance-promoting literature.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46572501","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Charles Dickens & Sir Philip Sidney: Hard Times, An Equine Defence for the Novel","authors":"Dana Pines","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904841","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904841","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:While critics have often read Hard Times as Dickens’s defense of imagination against utilitarianism, industrialism, and the fact-driven education of his time, the source of Dickens’s defensive theory and poetics has remained comparatively obscure. This article will argue that Dickens, in his attempt to defend imaginative literature, invokes Sir Philip Sidney’s sixteenth-century Defence of Poetry. More specifically, Dickens borrows from Sidney the trope of “Horsemanship” as a means to discuss the value of “Poetry.” Throughout the novel, Dickens turns to the image of the horse and the members of Sleary’s Horse-Riding as the catalysts for poetic powers, fancy, and imagination. Sleary’s troupe exposes the failure of the mechanical residents of Coketown, who insist on manufacturing passionless Bitzers rather than sensitive Sissys. The novel’s equine aesthetic repeatedly conjures the anxiety of the Gradgrindian School of “poesy,” where Dickens, through the equine invocation, carries out his apologetic debate.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44291453","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Juvenalian Satire of Our Mutual Friend","authors":"Jennifer Judge","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.a904842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.a904842","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay argues that Dickens rejected the Victorian literary consensus that satire, especially in its extravagant Juvenalian form, was unsuited to the novel. In several prefaces, he positions satire’s magnifying aesthetic of “extreme exposition” as an ideal mode for disrupting readers’ preconceptions. In Our Mutual Friend, Dickens forcefully revives Juvenal’s rhetorical overabundance and open scorn for avarice to showcase the voracious inhumanity of capitalism. Drawing upon prevalent ideas about the power of habit, he floods the novel with examples of the near inescapability of individual and institutional bad habit in a materialistic world. A variety of addictions are shown to dominate human character and deaden empathy and will. With satirical excess, Dickens blatantly displays the apocalyptic pull of solipsism and greed in a series of ostentatious Society dinners that echo Juvenal. In opposition to his critics, Dickens felt his audience urgently needed bold truths delivered with Juvenalian force.","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47754160","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Editors and Editorial Board","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.0012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135674519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"From the Editor","authors":"Dominic Rainsford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.0018","url":null,"abstract":"From the Editor Dominic Rainsford This is a particularly international issue of Dickens Quarterly, with contributors based in China, Denmark, Japan, Israel, Latvia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This raises a dilemma when it comes to name-order. Chinese and Japanese names (as well as various others not represented in the current issue) are normally presented with the family name first, in the languages in question. Western publishers, and Western society more broadly, have largely adopted the Chinese convention, referring to “Xi Jinping” and “Ai Weiwei,” for example, rather than “Jinping Xi” and “Weiwei Ai.” On the other hand, despite some official encouragement from the Japanese government, Western sources continue to Westernize the order of Japanese names: “Fumio Kishida” and “Yayoi Kusama,” for example, instead of “Kishida Fumio” and “Kusama Yayoi.” A few Western publications–for example, The Economist–now place family names first, consistently, in the case of both Chinese and Japanese individuals, but this is still rare in academic publishing. After consulting with contributors, Dickens Quarterly has decided to proceed, for the time being, with the pragmatic solution of following the predominant Western practice for Chinese and Japanese names, respectively. This was also the choice made by Athena Press, Japan, in the case of the collection Dickens and the Anatomy of Evil, reviewed in this issue. At the same time, Athena joined many other publishers in adopting the convention of placing family names in small capitals in the table of contents, so as to avoid confusion. We have decided to do the same, in the contributor notes and abstracts as well as in the table of contents (although not in bibliographic entries, or in references within the text of articles and reviews). We will keep this matter under review as wider familiarity with different conventions develops and in light of our contributors’ views and wishes. [End Page 137] Dominic Rainsford Aarhus University Copyright © 2023 The Dickens Society","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135674520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Dickens and Democracy in the Age of Paper: Representing the People by Carolyn Vellenga Berman","authors":"J. Drew","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.0013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.0013","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47997935","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Dickens Checklist","authors":"Dominic Rainsford","doi":"10.1353/dqt.2023.0011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/dqt.2023.0011","url":null,"abstract":"The Dickens Checklist Dominic Rainsford The Dickens Checklist, recording new publications, doctoral dissertations, and online ressources of significance for Dickens studies, appears in each issue of the journal. A cumulative cross-referenced edition of the Checklist, consisting of listings since vol. 37, no. 1 (March 2020), is available at dickenssociety.org, and is updated once a year. _______ Secondary Sources: Biography and Criticism Celeste, Mark. “Visualizing Mutuality: Teaching / Networks in Our Mutual Friend.” Victorians Institute Journal, vol. 49, 2022, pp. 166–97. Chelebourg, Christian. “Scrooge en famille: lecture socialisée d’un rite fictionnel.” Noël entre magie blanche et magie noire, edited by Christian Chelebourg, Lettres Modernes Minard, 2022, pp. 121–37. Revue des lettres modernes: Écritures jeunesse: 4. [CC ] Dick, Archie. Reading Spaces in South Africa, 1850–1920s. Cambridge UP, 2020. Elements in Publishing and Book Culture. [Ch. 3: “Dickens on the Page, the Podium, and the Stage”] Dickens Quarterly, vol. 40, no. 1, Mar. 2023. [Dominic Rainsford, “From the Editor,” pp. 5–7; Benjamin O’Dell, “David Copperfield, Émile, and the Legacy of Enlightenment Education Literature,” pp. 8–27; James Armstrong, “‘In a Dark Wig’: Reinventing Byron as Steerforth in David Copperfield,” pp. 28–44; Kathryne Ford, “Dickensian Divisions: David Copperfield’s ‘Hero[ine] of my own life,’” pp. 45–63; Lanya Lamouria, “Charles Dickens, Charles Babbage, Richard Babley: Material Memory in David Copperfield,” pp. 64–82; Jeremy Parrott, “Electrical Undercurrents in David Copperfield,” pp. 83–107; Robert Sirabian, review of The Lawyer in Dickens, by Franziska Quabeck, pp. 108–12; Michelle Allen-Emerson, review of Bite the Hand that Reads: Dickens, Animals, and Sanitary Reform, by Terry Scarborough, pp. 112–16; Tamara S. Wagner, review of The Tramp in British Literature, 1850–1950, by Luke Lewin Davies, and Vagrancy in the Victorian Age: Representing the Wandering Poor in Nineteenth-Century Literature and Culture, by Alistair Robinson, pp. 116–21; Dominic Rainsford, “The Dickens Checklist,” pp. 127–30] Dickens Studies Annual, vol. 54, no. 1, 2023. [Introduction, pp. v–vii; James Armstrong, “Rejecting ‘Nature’ in Martin Chuzzlewit: Racism, Slavery, and Death in Eden,” pp. 1–13; Jane E. Kim, “Watching the Detectives: The Reciprocal Gaze in Our Mutual Friend,” pp. 14–34; Laura White, “Insects, Age, and Failure: The Suppressed Chapter of ‘The Wasp in a Wig,’” pp. 35–50; James Hamby, “‘Let us veil our meaning’: Holiday Romance and the Second Reform Act of 1867,” pp. 51–73; Melissa Jenkins, “Whither, Hardy?: Selected Hardy Studies 2010–2022,” pp. 74–83; Richard A. Kaye, “Twenty-First-Century Oscar Wilde: A Review Essay,” pp. 84–119.] The Dickensian, vol. 118, part 3, no. 516, Winter 2022. [Catherine Waters, “From the New President,” pp. 253–56; William F. Long, “Dickens, Ainsworth and Turpin’s Gyves,” pp. 258–68; Renata Goroshkova, “A Tale of Two Magazines: Dickens ","PeriodicalId":41747,"journal":{"name":"DICKENS QUARTERLY","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135674514","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}