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A study of institutions in Dickens’s Bleak House as a representation of Foucault's disciplinary society
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Abstract This study employs Foucault's views on the strategies of power to analyze that the institutional world of Bleak House makes a disciplinary structure. The intrusion of these institutions in all strata of society in the novel, from the aristocratic Dedlocks to the poor area of Tom-All-Alone shapes a p... view more
This study employs Foucault's views on the strategies of power to analyze that the institutional world of Bleak House makes a disciplinary structure. The intrusion of these institutions in all strata of society in the novel, from the aristocratic Dedlocks to the poor area of Tom-All-Alone shapes a panoptic structure in which everyone is visible through a permanent and omniscient gaze. Under the matrix of various institutions almost all the characters in the novel, directly or indirectly, are trapped and engaged. This study shows the modernity of Dickens views on power relations in society and gives readers new maps to read Bleak House and new perspectives from which to view it.... view less
Keywords
institution; Foucault, M.; literature; power; society
Classification
Philosophy, Ethics, Religion
Cultural Sociology, Sociology of Art, Sociology of Literature
Free Keywords
Dickens, Ch.
Document language
English
Publication Year
2016
Page/Pages
p. 53-61
Journal
International Letters of Social and Humanistic Sciences (2016) 70
ISSN
2300-2697
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed