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Dickens: Primitive Propagandist
… having elapsed since the death of Charles Dickens, there is no doubt that he ranks today as one of the great novelists of the Victorian Age. However, his talents as an accomplished propagandist have received far less acclaim, and it will be the purpose of this thesis to present evidence …
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Neo-Victorian Dickens(es): The Hogarth/Dickens Circle and Recent Biofiction
My thesis examines why members of Charles Dickens’s domestic circle recur as characters in neo-Victorian biofiction published between 1990 and 2010. Following the postmodern foregrounding of the marginalised figures of history, biofiction of this kind rewrites – and “re-rights” – biographical …
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Dickens' Men of Law: Dickens' Changing Vision of English Legal Practice
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Animals in Dickens' world view
Photocopy of typescript.
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Social Injustices Portrayed in Dickens' Novels
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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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Dickens and the Image of Time
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The Circumlocution Office of Dickens' "Little Dorrit"
… of the satire on the Circumlocution Office in Dickens' novel Little Dorrit. no one to my knowledge has made a detailed analysis of the particular techniques which Dickens employs. The need for such a study may be indicated by reviewing the course that criticism has taken in assessing Dickens' …
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Dickens and the Making of His Readings
… analyses and reappraises the prompt copies that Dickens made for his public readings. In many ways, my thesis expands upon the work of Philip Collins and Malcolm Andrews who have offered the most substantial scholarly engagements with Dickens’s readings. The work of these scholars has largely …
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The Novel Novel: Dickens' Reformulations of Shakespeare's Hamlet
… this fact. Many of those writers include Charles Dickens in their arguments. In spite of this plethora of research, I propose a new light through which to analyze Dickens and the Victorian Shakespeare, that of the conflation of the stage and the novel and the way in which they interact, focusing …
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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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Dickens bereaved : a psychological examination of Oliver Twist.
… 1837, Mary Hogarth, the sister-in-law of Charles Dickens died in an upstairs bedroom of the Dickens home, having collapsed early that morning after returning from the theater. She was sixteen years old. This tragedy and the grief associated with it had a profound effect on Dickens and his work …
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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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