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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
<p>The grotesque in Dickens’ 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. …
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The divided consciousness in Charles Dickens' Hard times
… support the dehumanization concept Dickens is portraying. Thus Dickens turned, as it were, toward a potentially revolutionary form within which to accomodate what is in many ways his most original piece of writing.
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
<p>This dissertation explores Dickens characters that subvert dominant ideals of Victorian masculinity, in order to clarify both the nature of masculine anxieties (loss of autonomy, feminization, surveillance, and so on) and the existence of fantasies that allow vicarious escapes from such …
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The Primary Narrators of Charles Dickens' Early Novels
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Charles Dickens and the private life of the imagination
… especially on the form this element takes in Dickens's works, particularly in Great Expectations, and in so doing it joins a large group of recent writings in which critics have tried to develop more flexible ideas about the formal structure of Dickens's novels than had been current before. …
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Charles Dickens' Trope of Great Gulfs: Irony in Bleak House
In Bleak House, Charles Dickens artistically and ironically manipulates language to expose burgeoning socio-political gaps in Victorian times, most notably those that involve people who have access to money, power, food and salvation, and people who do not. Dickens refers to the unlikelihood of two …
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Charles Dickens in Cinema and the Loss of His Message
The collected works of Charles Dickens have garnered countless critiques, not the least of which involve their social and political meaning, but what about the films based on these works? There are few nineteenth century authors who have been adapted to film more than Dickens. However, these …
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Self and Society: Marriage in the Novels of Charles Dickens
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Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit: A Study in Real and Illusonary Parenthood
<p>In Charles Dickens' Little Dorrit (1855-1857) the theme of reality and illusion is introduced early in the novel. Dickens writes, "We all know how we | all deceive ourselves—that is to say, how people in general, our profounder J selves excepted, deceive themselves—as to motives of action." …
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The signification of speech and writing in the work of Charles Dickens
… and writing in selected novels and journalism of Charles Dickens. The initial chapter describes the differing attitudes of Bakhtin and Derrida to language, writing and literature. A purely literary history is rejected, in favour of asking socially and historically grounded questions about the …
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Recalled to Life: Adaptations of Charles Dickens for Children and Young Adults
There exists a multitude of adaptations of Charles Dickens’s novels for children and young adults, but thus far this body of work has been paid little critical attention. This thesis proposes to change that by analysing a sample of these texts to explore what is ‘Dickensian’ about adaptations of …
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The Foe in The Mirror: The Self-Destructive Characters in Charles Dickens' Novels
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Imagining the Thames: conceptions and functions of the river in the fiction of Charles Dickens
This thesis examines Dickens‟s uses of images of the river throughout his fiction, and also in the early sketches, the reprinted pieces from Household Words and The Uncommercial Traveller. The river concerned is usually but not exclusively the Thames, usually but not exclusively in London. The …
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Recasting the social critic : social commentary in selected novels of Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett
… to social commentary in selected novels by Charles Dickens and Terry Pratchett. Charles Dickens has been considered a social commentator and critic by modern critics as much as his contemporaries. His novels aided in exposing several social problems present in Victorian England, which …
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Ixion's wheel: Masculinity and the figure of the circle in the novels of Charles Dickens
… which masculinity and authorial subjectivity in Dickens's novels are bound to the figure of the circle, an image which functions both as a figure for an ideal narcissistic unity and as a sign of the individual's subjection to the metaphoric and metonymic movement of language within the symbolic …
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‘ALLOW ME TO INTRODUCE MYSELF — FIRST, NEGATIVELY’: CHARLES DICKENS, ANTHONY TROLLOPE, WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY AND FIRST-PERSON JOURNALISM IN THE 1860S FAMILY MAGAZINE
… the editorial contributions of W.M. Thackeray, Charles Dickens and Anthony Trollope to the Cornhill Magazine, All the Year Round and Saint Pauls Magazine, analyzing their cultivation of a familiar or personal style of journalism in the context of the 1860s family magazine and its rhetoric of …
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Your own personal Jesus : individualized religious sectarianism in the mid-victorian novel.
… century, two of which are by canonical authors, Charles Dickens and George Eliot; two not as well known, Charles Kingsley and Charlotte Yonge. The nineteenth century, in particular the century's central decades, was a time of great religious debate and division. Theological and popular elements …
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Prison Imagry in Little Dorrit
… general fund of material on the life and work of Charles Dickens leaves much to be desired in quality though little to be questioned in quantity. Until as late as 1955 critical commentaries were brief though numerous, and the only really outstanding biography since John Forster (1872-74) is Edgar …
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The portrayal of dissent and the Anglican Church in Victorian literature
… era was inevitably reflected in the work of Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell, and Charlotte Brontë. In this paper, I will examine one novel from each writer to explore how each responded to the decline of the Church of England and the growth of other denominations. This thesis project rests …
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Accounting for Mysteries: Narratives of Intuition and Empiricism in the Victorian Novel
… forms of knowledge. As I examine the work of Charles Dickens, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and George Eliot, my project traces what I suggest is a particularly Victorian desire to empirically account for the material facts of the world and a simultaneous reluctance to abandon a …
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