Recognition or Reification
Capitalist Crisis and Subjectivity in Little Dorrit
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4271373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Barbara Parker (0000-0003-4326-7787, corresponding author), Ben Parker (0000-0001-7959-6529) |
| Year | 2014 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 131-151 |
| Publication date | 2014-12-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | New Literary History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0028-6087 • E-ISSN: 1080-661X |
| Publisher | Project MUSE (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1353/nlh.2014.0004 |
| OpenAlex | W2045121862 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 10 |
This essay examines the representational obstacles posed for narrative recognition in the realist novel by crises in capitalism, focusing on Charles Dickens's Little Dorrit (1857). Recognition scenes (Aristotle's anagnorisis ) in Victorian novels tend to model a form of subjectivity and temporality, of concealment and recovery, while capitalist crisis is radically unknowable through this same narrative epistemology. This incompatibility of recognition with the logic of capitalist representation (reification) is brought out through a comparative close reading of two recognition scenes in the multi-plot Little Dorrit
Aesthetics · Art · Capitalism · Epistemology · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Narrative · Political science · Politics · Reading (process) · Reification (Marxism) · Representation (politics) · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Contemporary Literature and Criticism · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies
| Citations per year | 0.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2022 - 2025 (4) |
| Highly cited | No |