Disciplina no PPGL-UERJ (2026.2): Entre o Bildungsroman e o romance histórico: afterlives de Charles Dickens

Em 2026.2, semestre que se inicia no dia 10 de agosto no âmbito do PPGL da UERJ, oferecerei uma disciplina que abordará continuidades da obra de Charles Dickens no contemporâneo. Analisaremos reescritas de seus romances, como Demon Copperhead, de Barbara Kingsolver, e obras que abordam Dickens enquanto personagem, como The Fraud, de Zadie Smith. A ementa completa está disponível a seguir.

PROGRAMA DE DISCIPLINA 2026.2

Área(   ) Estudos de Língua(X) Estudos de Literatura
Especialidade(   ) Língua Portuguesa (   ) Linguística(   ) Literatura Brasileira (   ) Literatura Portuguesa (X) Literaturas de Língua Inglesa (   ) Teoria da Literatura e Literatura Comparada
Nível(X) Mestrado( x) Doutorado
DisciplinaProsa narrativa
TemaEntre o Bildungsroman e o romance histórico: afterlives de Charles Dickens
Professor(a)Marcela Santos Brigida e Davi Pinho
Dia e horárioQuintas-feiras, de 10:40 às 14:00
Recursos audiovisuais(X) Sim    (   ) Não   (  ) Eventualmente

Ementa

O curso propõe um mapeamento das afterlives de Charles Dickens na literatura do século XXI a partir da leitura de romances contemporâneos que adaptam, tematizam, reescrevem, se apropriam ou rejeitam de forma explícita enredos, imagens e características associadas ao que se convencionou chamar “dickensiano”. Se Dickens explora convenções do realismo do romance do século XVIII para moldar uma versão do romance inglês à sua própria imagem, de que maneiras o escritor segue influenciando a forma que revolucionou?

Observação: Embora uma parte significativa da bibliografia do curso esteja em língua inglesa, as aulas e discussões serão conduzidas em português. Alunos de outras especialidades serão muito bem-vindos.

Programa

1.⁠⁠ A formação e a contribuição de Charles Dickens: influências, práticas, controvérsias e legados.

2. ⁠⁠O romance de formação vitoriano no presente: David Copperfield como Demon Copperhead.

3.⁠ Sobre matar Dickens: Zadie Smith e The Fraud (2023).

4.⁠⁠⁠ Literatura e/como jornalismo: a contribuição de Ali Smith.

Bibliografia Inicial

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BOWEN, John. “The Historical Novel.” In A Companion to the Victorian Novel, edited by Patrick Brantlinger and William B. Thesing, 244–59. Malden: Blackwell Publishing, 2005.

DEVER, Caroline. Death and the Mother from Dickens to Freud: Victorian Fiction and the Anxiety of Origins. Cambridge University Press, 1998.

DICKENS, Charles. Oliver Twist. Edited by Kathleen Tillotson. With an introduction and notes by Stephen Gill. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

DICKENS, Charles and Burgis, Nina (Ed.). David Copperfield. Oxford University Press, [1850] 2008.

DICKENS, Charles and Hartley, Jenny (Ed.). The Selected Letters of Charles Dickens. E-book ed. Oxford University Press, 2012.

DICKENS, Charles. “Sucking Pigs.” Household Words 4 (November 8, 1851): 145–47.

FORSTER, John. The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III. James R. Osgood & Company, 1875. Digital edition produced by Emmy, Juliet Sutherland, Andrew Templeton and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.nethttps://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/25851/pg25851-images.html

FREUD, Sigmund. “The ‘Uncanny’” (1919). The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, Volume XVII (1917-1919): An Infantile Neurosis and Other Works, edited and translated by James Strachey, Hogarth Press, 1955, pp. 217-256.

GUSTAFSON, Susan. “Watching the Subject: The Mother’s Gaze in Dickens’s ‘David Copperfield’ and Kafka’s ‘Der Verschollene’.” Monatshefte, vol. 93, no. 1, 2001, pp. 53-72.

HABER, Leigh. “Oprah’s Book Club Author Barbara Kingsolver Writes the ‘Great Appalachian Novel’”. Oprah Daily, Oct. 2022, https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/books/a40795483/barbara-kingsolver-interview-demon-copperhead/

JONTE-PACE, Diane. Speaking the Unspeakable: Religion, Misogyny, and the Uncanny Mother in Freud’s Cultural Texts. University of California Press, 2001.

KINGSOLVER, Barbara. Demon Copperhead. E-book ed. HarperCollins, 2022.

MCGREAL, Chris. American Overdose: The Opioid Crisis in Three Acts. E-book ed. PublicAffairs, 2018.

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NAPIER, Elizabeth. The Nursery Governess. T. and W. Boone, 1834.

ORFORD, Peter. The Life of the Author: Charles Dickens. Wiley Blackwell, 2023.

POOVEY, Mary. Uneven Developments: The Ideological Work of Gender in Mid-Victorian England. The University of Chicago Press, 1988.

SATEL, Sally. “Opioids and Appalachia.” National Affairs, vol. 1, no. 59, Spring 2024, https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/opioids-and-appalachia

SCHAUMBURGER, Nancy. “Partners in Pathology: David, Dora, and Steerforth” The Dickensian, vol. 84, no. 3, 1988, pp. 155-159.

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SMITH, Ali. Autumn. London: Hamish Hamilton, 2016.

SMITH, Zadie. “On Killing Charles Dickens.” The New Yorker, July 3, 2023. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/10/on-killing-charles-dickens.

SMITH, Zadie. The Fraud. London: Penguin Books Ltd, 2023.

WATT, Ian. The Rise of the Novel: Studies in Defoe, Richardson, and Fielding. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1965.

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