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Dickensian Affects: Charles Dickens and Feelings of Precarity by Joshua Gooch (review)
Ist Teil von
Dickens Quarterly, 2020-09, Vol.37 (3), p.289-292
Ort / Verlag
Oxford: Johns Hopkins University Press
Erscheinungsjahr
2020
Link zum Volltext
Quelle
Literature Online (LION)
Beschreibungen/Notizen
In an initial commentary on literary criticism and economics, Gooch points out that interdisciplinary work of this kind is often fraught with difficulty; his book is a welcome attempt to bring recent developments in affect studies to bear upon the field. Chapter 3 pieces together the intersecting histories of land reform in France and Britain in order to make an argument about inheritance and the state of transit in The Old Curiosity Shop; "the sentimentality of The Old Curiosity Shop," Gooch says, "urges us to imagine the passage of objects, bodies, and emotions as the contagious transmission of a positive moral sense between characters, yet these passages also suggest that the materiality of what is passed may undermine such feelings" (104). For Gooch, David Copperfield "plots the surprise produced by the need to trust others" (122–23); the novel's interest in trust anticipates the workings of the call loan system, which "generated a system-wide crisis as the reserves of the entire financial system were caught in the grips of a speculative credit market crash" (134). [...]Gooch's allusions to economic precarity in our present moment–and to the position of the academic precariat, more specifically–are both bold and welcome.