Publications

Authors:

Ligugnana, Giovanna

Title:

Unrepresented and “Circumlocuted” People: Public Institutions and Citizens in Dickens’ Little Dorrit

Year:

2018

Type of item:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Language:

Inglese

Format:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Name of journal:

PÓLEMOS

ISSN of journal:

2035-5262

N° Volume:

12

Number or Folder:

1

Page numbers:

53-69

Keyword:

Victorian public administration, bureaucracy, prisons

Short description of contents:

Charles Dickens’ novels often present a peculiar vision of the mid-nineteenth-century Victorian government and, more generally, of public administration. In Little Dorrit, the author presents his personal critique of a corrupt, nepotistic and detached bureaucracy that works to maintain itself, stifling citizens’ economic initiative in the process and likewise hindering the development of society. In the same novel, however, the author presents the Marshalsea prison as an unexpected example of ‘domestic’ administration, an official institution that simultaneously punishes and protects, and where, contrary to the other public institutions, the protagonists have really been part of.

Product ID:

101816

Handle IRIS:

11562/976902

Last Modified:

November 1, 2022

Bibliographic citation:

Ligugnana, Giovanna, Unrepresented and “Circumlocuted” People: Public Institutions and Citizens in Dickens’ Little Dorrit «PÓLEMOS» , vol. 12 , n. 1 , 2018 , pp. 53-69

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