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Page 135
... Dickens's characters into a relatively small number of categories , to agree that there are family resemblances in the casts of many of the novels . Brownlow and Grimwig ( benevolent plutocrats ) are paralleled by Mr Pick- wick , the ...
... Dickens's characters into a relatively small number of categories , to agree that there are family resemblances in the casts of many of the novels . Brownlow and Grimwig ( benevolent plutocrats ) are paralleled by Mr Pick- wick , the ...
Page 139
... Dickens belongs to that group of ' petty bourgeois ' writers whose ambiguous intermediate position between the classes gave them unique insights into their society . In Dickens's case , his class location between the blacking factory ...
... Dickens belongs to that group of ' petty bourgeois ' writers whose ambiguous intermediate position between the classes gave them unique insights into their society . In Dickens's case , his class location between the blacking factory ...
Page 140
... Dickens's day . This para- doxical emotion , which is easily powerful enough to over- whelm any residual interest we might have in the fate of Oliver , the nominal hero , may well have had its roots in the ambiv- alence of the young Dickens ...
... Dickens's day . This para- doxical emotion , which is easily powerful enough to over- whelm any residual interest we might have in the fate of Oliver , the nominal hero , may well have had its roots in the ambiv- alence of the young Dickens ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
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