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But Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist; he was
after another kind of reality. It is often said that his characters are caricatures,
either caricatures of comedy or monstrous puppets of melodrama. He is then
seen ...
But Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist; he was
after another kind of reality. It is often said that his characters are caricatures,
either caricatures of comedy or monstrous puppets of melodrama. He is then
seen ...
Page 188
Dickens was the wretched little heavy-eyed mite the nineteenth century
neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was. It made him without
realizing it a violent revolutionary. In novels like Dombey and Son, Bleak House,
Hard Times, ...
Dickens was the wretched little heavy-eyed mite the nineteenth century
neglected and who told it just what manner of age it was. It made him without
realizing it a violent revolutionary. In novels like Dombey and Son, Bleak House,
Hard Times, ...
Page 191
In Dombey, for instance, or Carker in the same novel, or Headstone in Our Mutual
Friend, Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in
behavior that he is inventing characters that we should today call psychopaths, ...
In Dombey, for instance, or Carker in the same novel, or Headstone in Our Mutual
Friend, Dickens is concentrating so exclusively on the obsessional element in
behavior that he is inventing characters that we should today call psychopaths, ...
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THE BEGINNINGS | 3 |
THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY | 51 |
THE FIRST GENERA | 107 |
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| Title | The English Novel: A Short Critical History Part 9 of A Dutton Paperback Dutton everyman paperback |
| Author | Walter Ernest Allen |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Dutton, 1954 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 15 May 2007 |
| Length | 454 pages |
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