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Page 163
... Dickens was a Manichee amd was much more convinced of the reality of evil than of good . Certainly the rendering of ... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he was after another kind of reality . It ...
... Dickens was a Manichee amd was much more convinced of the reality of evil than of good . Certainly the rendering of ... Dickens's way of character creation was not that of the realist novelist ; he was after another kind of reality . It ...
Page 168
... Dickens has forgotten the full extent of the viciousness he has set out to satirize in his sheer exuberant joy in the character he has invented ; joy in turn has begotten a kind of sympathy , even a kind of love , so that in the end ...
... Dickens has forgotten the full extent of the viciousness he has set out to satirize in his sheer exuberant joy in the character he has invented ; joy in turn has begotten a kind of sympathy , even a kind of love , so that in the end ...
Page 169
... Dickens's increasing dissatisfaction with the society of his day . So that very early on in Dickens criticism , at any rate from the time of Bagehot's essay , the later , darker manifestations of Dickens's genius began to be deplored ...
... Dickens's increasing dissatisfaction with the society of his day . So that very early on in Dickens criticism , at any rate from the time of Bagehot's essay , the later , darker manifestations of Dickens's genius began to be deplored ...
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS | 9 |
The Beginnings | 21 |
The Eighteenth Century | 43 |
Copyright | |
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