Abstract:While critics of Charles Dickens’s novels have long noted his unusual, hyper-memorable characters, Dickens’s method of creating and vivifying his fictional individuals has been comparatively undertheorized. Reading A Christmas Carol (1843) and Pierre Bourdieu’s “The Forms of Capital,” this article argues that Dickens writes his characters’ individual bodies so that they continually dramatize their unique compositions of multiform capital—economic, cultural, and social. I theorize that Dickens creates his most idiosyncratic, signature characters through their disproportionate forms of different types of capital—like the Carol’s famous Ebenezer Scrooge, who has a large amount of economic capital and such a lack of social capital. Furthermore, I contend that Dickens’s “major” characters are determined not by the amount of readerly attention the narrative directs their way, but rather their levels of consciousness and savvy about how to convert between different forms of capital.

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“三者之灵必在我内行”：布尔迪安多元资本与狄更斯式的刻画

摘要：虽然查尔斯狄更斯小说的评论家早就注意到他不寻常的、令人难忘的人物，但狄更斯创造和激活他的虚构人物的方法却相对缺乏理论化。在阅读圣诞颂歌 (1843) 和皮埃尔·布迪厄 (Pierre Bourdieu) 的“资本的形式”时，这篇文章认为狄更斯笔下人物的个体身体是为了让他们不断地戏剧化他们独特的多元资本构成——经济、文化和社会。我的理论是，狄更斯通过不同类型资本的不成比例的形式创造了他最独特的标志性人物——比如卡罗尔著名的埃比尼泽斯克罗吉，他拥有大量的经济资本，却又如此缺乏社会资本。此外，