Sean Purchase
Ashgate
Hardback
170
Sean Purchase explores the problems inherent in Dickens's construction of 'Englishness ' suggesting that it is haunted by Dickens's complex encounter with empire. In Dickens's fiction Purchase argues we find a 'silent' relationship to empire that is invariably marked by problems in language. Moving agilely between the historical narrative of the British empire and Dickens's writings Purchase's book provides a balanced critique of Dickens and his place in Britain's imperial and colonial history.
Ashgate
Hardback
170
Sean Purchase explores the problems inherent in Dickens's construction of 'Englishness ' suggesting that it is haunted by Dickens's complex encounter with empire. In Dickens's fiction Purchase argues we find a 'silent' relationship to empire that is invariably marked by problems in language. Moving agilely between the historical narrative of the British empire and Dickens's writings Purchase's book provides a balanced critique of Dickens and his place in Britain's imperial and colonial history.