ENGL 240R

Charles Dickens

Examines the major narrative, plot, and genre structures, image patterns, and thematic preoccupations in Dickens' novels, like the interrelationships between homes, prisons, factories and schools. The influences of Dickens' life, periodical publishing of illustrated magazines, and of Victorian society also receives attention. Introduces students to relevant insights of several "post-structural" critical schools, including those of deconstruction, the carnivalesque, liminality, and Lacanian psychology.

Units: 3.0