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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"1812-1870 -- Criticism and interpretation"”.
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Dickens bereaved : a psychological examination of Oliver Twist.
… theater. She was sixteen years old. This tragedy and the grief associated with it had a profound effect on Dickens and his work from that time forward. In particular, the trauma of Dickens's immediate grief plays itself out in the pages of Oliver Twist, the novel he was writing at the time of her …
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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… dissertation examines key moments in fictional and autobiographical texts when gender construction and colonization intersect and create the possibility for reciprocal visual exchange between disparate people. In a visual exchange, the participants actively and meaningfully look at one another, …
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
… works should be studied as a means of understanding his artistry and imagination. Biographical and psychoanalytical approaches to his fascination with the grotesque provide only partial explanations for Dickens’ use of hyperbole, caricature, melodrama and the macabre. With the vocabulary and …