本書はディケンズ・フェロウシップ(本部ロンドン)の日本支部が、チャールズ・ディケンズ(1812-1870)の生誕200年を記念して刊行する論文集です。日本のディケンズ研究のレベルの高さを世界に向けてアピールすべく、全文が英語で書かれています。ディケンズ小説論はもちろんこと、絵画、音楽、社会問題など、広範囲なテーマをカバーする14篇の論文は、日本のディケンズおよびヴィクトリア朝研究の最先端の成果です。
ISBN 978-4-271-21023-8
CONTENTS
Foreword
The Stranger on the Threshold: Perambulating the Underworld of The Pickwick Papers
Yasuki KIHARA
Demarcating the Borders:
Exploring Dickensian Realism in Oliver Twist
Midori NIINO
They Are Living and Must Die
Yasuhiko MATSUMOTO
Scrooge as a Time Traveler: The Dream Structure of A Christmas Carol
Yumiko HIRONO
Christmas Carols to Sing: The Rise of a Cultural and Commercial Phenomenon, 1936-1963
David CHANDLER
The Connective in Dombey and Son
Toru SASAKI
Child Abuse and Its Aftermath in Great Expectations
Akiko TAKEI.......................................90
"The Times are Levelling Times": Violence in the Age of Democracy and Imperialism in The Mystery of Edwin Drood
Fumie TAMAI
Dickens and Genre Painting: Influence from Ostade and Sir David Wilkie
Nanako KONOSHIMA
Dickens's Amateur Theatricals: Towards a Compilation of the Dramatic Pieces Performed
Takao SAIJO
Dickens and "Sleep-Waking"
Tomoya WATANABE
Dickens and Mind-forg'd Manacles: The Mechanisms of Memory, Love, and Madness
Mitsuharu MATSUOKA
Dickens's Women Characters: Subversive Responses to the Difficulties in Marriage
Aya YATSUGI
An Ambivalent View of Vagrants in Late Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Britain
Takanobu TANAKA
Notes on Editors and Contributors
Index
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