Dickens's Villains

John, Juliet

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“…They are dynamic, manifesting themselves metonymically and "superficially".' 17 John's emphasis on ambiguity, superficiality, excessiveness, and dynamic fluidity certainly lends itself to a queer analysis. I want to further queer her insights by reading them alongside Donald Winnicott's influential idea of the 'transitional space', a space 'between inner and outer world, which is also the space between people' in which 'intimate relationships and creativity occur'.…”

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‘Should I feel a moment with you?’: Queering Dickensian Feeling

Winyard

2012

19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century

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Let's queer the pitch slightly and consider how the bicentenary engenders negative feelings in people. Aside from the impassioned acclaim, the effusive eulogies, and the dazzling range of good-spirited festivities, what negative feelings about Dickens, his work and the bicentenary are perceptible underneath, alongside, and intermeshed with the more celebratory ones? From indifference, boredom, irritation, and exhaustion, to jadedness, anger, and shame, there are certainly undercurrents pushing against the tide of obligatory festivity, many of which express, recycle, and intersect with negative feelings about Dickens that have been circulating since his lifetime.Among some scholars, we might detect, alongside enthusiasm and excitement, fatigue, boredom, and uneasiness about nostalgic representations of Dickens. The packed schedule of conferences, exhibitions, and celebrations is wonderfully overwhelming, and only the most energetic -and wealthy -can do more than cherry-pick. people to read and enjoy Dickens, it also makes others feel overwhelmed and humiliated, particularly as Dickens is elevated alongside Shakespeare to cultural colossus. The bicentennial emphasis on Dickens's universality perhaps downplays the historical specificity of his work and elides moments of disjuncture, incoherence, and oddness that

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