{"product_id":"dickensian-affects-joshua-gooch-9781032088341","title":"Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eDickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity\u003c\/i\u003e, Joshua Gooch argues that Dickens's novels offer models of feeling that illuminate the dissensions that accompany life's precariousness under capitalism. By examining the role of violence, anxiety, surprise, and suspense in Dickens's novels, Gooch explores how they represent and shape emotions to create rhythms specific to their historical moment. To unearth Dickensian affects, Gooch examines how some of Dickens's novels yoke elements in their difference to signal different kinds and ways of feeling, what he terms affective form. This patterning of elements links a text's ways of feeling to its conjuncture and locates lines of flight that allow its representations of emotion to become something else. The violence of \u003ci\u003eOliver Twist \u003c\/i\u003elinks its satire of the New Poor Law to the post-abolition period of apprenticeship in the West Indies. The pervasive anxiety of \u003ci\u003eThe Old Curiosity Shop \u003c\/i\u003elinks Nell's journey to arguments economic inequality focused on questions of inheritance and land reform. The surprise of \u003ci\u003eDavid Copperfield \u003c\/i\u003ebinds its interests in questions of character and trust to Britain's professional world and credit markets. And the suspense of \u003ci\u003eGreat Expectations \u003c\/i\u003egestures toward a sense of shame and demand for new models of masculine character also seen in the Volunteer rifle militias. \u003ci\u003eDickensian Affects \u003c\/i\u003eargues that for Dickens, questions of feeling reveal the precarity of feeling itself. For Dickens, to feel is to know the possibility of feeling otherwise. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Joshua Gooch\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1032088346\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781032088341\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Routledge\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/30\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d","brand":"Joshua Gooch","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48065327497471,"sku":"9781032088341","price":56.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_eeb70ffc-801e-4c3a-9390-3b6b0c3fc7d5.jpg?v=1768674464","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/dickensian-affects-joshua-gooch-9781032088341","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}