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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870"”.
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Dickens bereaved : a psychological examination of Oliver Twist.
… May 7, 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 …
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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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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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The Visual Exchange: The Intersection of Vision, Gender, and Empire in Nineteenth-Century British Literature
… Girl (1806), The History of Mary Prince (1831), Charles Dickens's Martin Chuzzlewit (1844), and Olive Schreiner's The Story of an African Farm (1883). Despite the rich scholarship in recent years on race and imperialism, gender, and the gaze as they are conceived in the nineteenth century, it is …
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Consequential ground: Memorials of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars in Romantic culture 1793-1877
As we mark the bicentenary of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars what memorials of the wars have we inherited? And who bequeathed that inheritance to posterity? From the Victorian monuments that remain, it would seem that the heritage of war was coherently patriotic and evidence of a pro-war, …