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dc.contributor.authorEllison, David A
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T14:24:55Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T14:24:55Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.date.modified2010-06-01T06:53:27Z
dc.identifier.issn0038-2876
dc.identifier.doi10.1215/00382876-2008-024
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/29948
dc.description.abstractFrom the beginning of his career, Dickens conceived of the home and in particular the hearth as the reception point for his distinctive narrative transmissions. The relationship between writer and reader was imagined in terms of the most intimate and residentially entrenched exchanges even while Dickens contemplated the very profitable consequences of mass proliferation. In order to contextualize Dickens's entrenchment, this essay explores the means by which he fostered an aesthetic of domestic reception. Here the hearth is seen in lights both familiar and unfamiliar, as source and symbol of Victorian virtue, but also as an integral component of a discursive ensemble integrating reader, furnishings, and architecture. In novels like Dombey and Son, Dickens considers the vexing problem of domestic disquiet-the noisy and volatile insecurity of the middle classes at home-while offering a respite, a cure that briefly bound rapt readers to their chairs.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherDuke University Press
dc.publisher.placeUnited States
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom87
dc.relation.ispartofpageto114
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalSouth Atlantic Quarterly
dc.relation.ispartofvolume108
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCultural studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchLiterary studies
dc.subject.fieldofresearchBritish and Irish literature
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4702
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode4705
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode470504
dc.titleMobile Homes, Fallen Furniture, and the Dickens Cure
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyArts, Education & Law Group, School of Humanities, Languages and Social Sciences
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gro.date.issued2009
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gro.griffith.authorEllison, David A.


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