Enumeration and Exhaustion: Taking Inventory in "The Old Curiosity Shop"
The Old Curiosity Shop marks a crisis in Dickens’s early career. Overcommitted to projects, a victim of his own success, Dickens soon found his episodic model of fiction, first practiced in Pickwick and devoted to furnishing ‘‘a constant succession of characters and incidents,’’ pushed to its limit....
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| description | The Old Curiosity Shop marks a crisis in Dickens’s early career. Overcommitted to projects, a victim of his own success, Dickens soon found his episodic model of fiction, first practiced in Pickwick and devoted to furnishing ‘‘a constant succession of characters and incidents,’’ pushed to its limit. Of his new periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock he complained, ‘‘wind, wind, wind, always winding I am.’’ His fourth novel became a metafictional reflection on the conditions of his own creativity, a work seemingly intent on thwarting the very delineating power—the power of invention, and of inventory—that multiplies fresh characters and incidents in the Dickensian episodic narrative. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1130872022-09-23T09:39:24Z Enumeration and Exhaustion: Taking Inventory in "The Old Curiosity Shop" Buzard, James Massachusetts Institute of Technology. School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences Buzard, James Buzard, James The Old Curiosity Shop marks a crisis in Dickens’s early career. Overcommitted to projects, a victim of his own success, Dickens soon found his episodic model of fiction, first practiced in Pickwick and devoted to furnishing ‘‘a constant succession of characters and incidents,’’ pushed to its limit. Of his new periodical Master Humphrey’s Clock he complained, ‘‘wind, wind, wind, always winding I am.’’ His fourth novel became a metafictional reflection on the conditions of his own creativity, a work seemingly intent on thwarting the very delineating power—the power of invention, and of inventory—that multiplies fresh characters and incidents in the Dickensian episodic narrative. 2018-01-12T16:37:58Z 2018-01-12T16:37:58Z 2008 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 0084-9812 2167-8510 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/113087 Buzard, James. 'Enumeration and Exhaustion: Taking Inventory in "The Old Curiosity Shop".' Dickens Studies Annual 39 (2008): 17-41 © 2008 AMS Press, Incorporated https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8220-4108 en_US https://dickens.ucsc.edu/resources/dsa/vol-39.html Dickens Studies Annual Article is made available in accordance with the publisher's policy and may be subject to US copyright law. Please refer to the publisher's site for terms of use. application/pdf Penn State University Press Buzard via Mark Szarko |
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| title_short | Enumeration and Exhaustion: Taking Inventory in "The Old Curiosity Shop" |
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