Pubblicazioni

Autori:

Ligugnana, Giovanna

Titolo:

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

Anno:

2018

Tipologia prodotto:

Articolo in Rivista

Tipologia ANVUR:

Articolo su rivista

Lingua:

Inglese

Formato:

A Stampa

Referee:

Sì

Nome rivista:

PÓLEMOS

ISSN Rivista:

2035-5262

N° Volume:

12

Numero o Fascicolo:

1

Intervallo pagine:

53-69

Parole chiave:

Victorian public administration, bureaucracy, prisons

Breve descrizione dei contenuti:

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.

Id prodotto:

101816

Handle IRIS:

11562/976902

ultima modifica:

1 novembre 2022

Citazione bibliografica:

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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