{"product_id":"9780801467011","title":"Knowing Dickens: Biopolitics, Eurasianism, and the Construction of Community in Modern Russia","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 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 negotiate the ground between knowing and telling,  revealing and concealing. She asks how well Dickens knew himself-the  extent to which he understood his own nature and the ways he projected  himself in his fictions-and how well we can know him.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKnowing Dickens\u003c\/em\u003e is the first book to systematically explore Dickens's  abundant correspondence in relation to his published writings. Gathering  evidence from letters, journalistic essays, stories, and novels that bear  on a major issue or pattern of response in Dickens's life and work,  Bodenheimer cuts across familiar storylines in Dickens biography and  criticism in chapters that take up topics including self-defensive  language, models of memory, relations of identification and rivalry among  men, houses and household management, and walking and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cornell University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47068435939568,"sku":"9780801467011","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780801467011_p0.jpg?v=1763664633","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780801467011","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}