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〈Abstract〉
Dickens's Endings: A New Historicist Approach to Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities
Kim, Tag-Jung
The ending of Dickens's novel is in the form of a typical happy (closed) ending upon which recent literary critics tend to look down. This article aims to show that Dickens's happy ending typical of Victorian literature could be seen as Dickens's "superficial" and "disguised" strategy of wrapping up a story that his days required.
This argument doesn't mean that Dickens was "subversive" of the then popular closed happy ending form of the novel. It means that Dickens was right in the middle of Victorian literary culture, corresponding to the self-contradictory discursive characteristic of the Victorian period. In other words, this is an attempt to show that, as has been known, Dickens is the most Victorian writer, but in a different sense. It is my intention to put Dickens back in his time of history and assess his work from a perspective conscious of his time.
According to my approach, Dickens's ending reveals the typical discursive aspect characteristic of self-contradictory conflict between the artist's role as a social critic and his or her natural romantic impulse. Especially, Bleak House and A Tale of Two Cities show this aspect most strongly. The two narrators in Bleak House take up different roles as a social critic and a romantic individual and tell the same story from a different perspective, but their difference remains the same throughout the novel. In A Tale of Two Cities, there is only one narrator, but as the novel proceeds, two different voices appear: one as a historian and the other as an individual full of emotions. Unlike Bleak House, this novel shows that one voice takes the full authority over the other in the end, but this happens only after it kills the coherence of the narrative, which in turn reveals that it is impossible to take up one kind of impulse, abandoning the other. In my interpretation, therefore, Dickens's closed happy ending is too superficial, only for formality.

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