A Self-Made Man: Hard Times and the Dickensian Impostor
| dc.bibliographicCitation.firstPage | 359 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 4 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.lastPage | 374 | |
| dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 67 | |
| dc.contributor.author | Schwanebeck, Wieland | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2021-02-11T10:38:43Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2021-02-11T10:38:43Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2019 | |
| dc.description.abstract | This essay examines the impostor trope within the works of Charles Dickens, focusing on the example of Josiah Bounderby, the villain of Hard Times (1854), in particular. As a product of the Victorian age’s obsession with character-building and the spirit of industriousness as epitomised in the work of Samuel Smiles, Bounderby not only embodies much of what Dickens found objectionable about utilitarian thought but also a number of tropes that were and remain crucial to the cultural imaginary of the United States (even though Hard Times only briefly alludes to America). As a charismatic rogue who tinkers with his own biography, Bounderby foreshadows the coming of the impostor in turn-of-the-century European literature, an aspect of Hard Times that has so far been overlooked in critical accounts of the novel. | |
| dc.identifier.doi | 10.1515/zaa-2019-0027 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://resolver.sub.uni-goettingen.de/purl?fidaac-11858/769 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.relation.issn | 2196-4726 | |
| dc.relation.journal | Zeitschrift für Anglistik und Amerikanistik | |
| dc.rights | L::The Stacks License | |
| dc.subject.ddc | ddc:820 | |
| dc.subject.field | englishstudies | |
| dc.subject.field | literarystudies | |
| dc.title | A Self-Made Man: Hard Times and the Dickensian Impostor | |
| dc.type | article | |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | |
| dspace.entity.type | Publication |