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Page 135
... Oliver and the revelations about the significance of the gold locket and Oliver's true parentage . One critic has suggested that these weaknesses reflect a basic change of course while the novel was actually being serialised ...
... Oliver and the revelations about the significance of the gold locket and Oliver's true parentage . One critic has suggested that these weaknesses reflect a basic change of course while the novel was actually being serialised ...
Page 139
... Oliver's plight . In Eagleton's words : ' The novel argues at once that Oliver is and is not the product of bourgeois oppression , just as the " real world " of bourgeois social relations into which he is magically rescued is endorsed ...
... Oliver's plight . In Eagleton's words : ' The novel argues at once that Oliver is and is not the product of bourgeois oppression , just as the " real world " of bourgeois social relations into which he is magically rescued is endorsed ...
Page 140
... Oliver Twist the presence of this contradiction tends to shift our interest from Oliver , whose ' uncorrupted ' character obviously cannot with credibility be presented to us too closely , and the Maylies , in whose pallid rural utopia ...
... Oliver Twist the presence of this contradiction tends to shift our interest from Oliver , whose ' uncorrupted ' character obviously cannot with credibility be presented to us too closely , and the Maylies , in whose pallid rural utopia ...
Contents
Theoretical Approaches | 21 |
Defoe and Richardson | 59 |
Varieties of Conservative | 87 |
Copyright | |
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