Knowing Dickens (English, Rosemarie Bodenheimer)

About the Book

In this compelling and accessible book, Rosemarie Bodenheimer explores the thoughtworld of the Victorian novelist who was most deeply intrigued by nineteenth-century ideas about the unconscious mind. Dickens found many ways to dramatize in his characters both unconscious processes and acts of self-projection--notions that are sometimes applied to him as if he were an unwitting patient. Bodenheimer explains how the novelist used such techniques to…

ISBN: 9780801446146