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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Our Mutual Friend"”.
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Darkness and Death as Represented by Pollution in Charles Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
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Dickens and the Problem of Maturity: 'Dombey and Son,' 'David Copperfield,' 'Bleak House,' 'Great Expectations,' and 'Our Mutual Friend.'
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Whose Clothes Are They Wearing Anyway? Sartorial Exchange, Disguise, and Accumulation in Chaucer's The Clerk's Tale and Dickens's Our Mutual Friend
… Tale</italic> and Charles Dickens's <italic>Our Mutual Friend</italic> both utilize clothing to construct gendered characters through the clothes they wear. By placing these two disparate texts in conversation, I examine the exchange of clothing and how Chaucer and Dickens further this …
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Masculine Fantasies In Selected Novels by Charles Dickens
… and forbearance. One example occurs in <em>Our Mutual Friend</em>, in which Bradley Headstone considers his ever-increasing obsession with violence: "The state of the man was murderous, and he knew it. More; he irritated it, with a kind of perverse pleasure akin to that which a sick man …
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The Last Will and Testament in The Victorian Novel
… masterpieces as Middlemarch, Vanity Fair, and Our Mutual Friend, and in such lesser works as Henry Kingsley's Ravenshoe and Rider Haggard's Mr. Meeson's Will. The dissertation focuses on those fictional wills for which we know somthing of the testator's motives, the will's contents, and the …
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THE VIOLENCE WITHIN AND WITHOUT: IMAGINATION AND REALITY IN THE NOVEL
… how essential the activity of organization is to our apprehension of the world. Following Wallace Stevens, I define "reality" as an external pressure that constitutes a resistance to this basic activity of organization. A constant interplay of imagination and reality operates in perception and …
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
… how, in the grotesque, pain and death become sources of humor.</p> <p>Chapter Four, on <em>The Old Curiosity Shop</em>, relates the grotesque to various aspects of popular Victorian entertainment, especially to Clown, pantomime and Punch. After establishing Dickens’ fascination with the theater …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… financial world that was taking shape. One flourishing financial institution which received much attention in Parliament, the press, and literature was the pawn shop, perhaps because it encapsulated, in a local and visible way, some of the basic issues at stake in Victorian finance. Deemed …
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“Bound together by a web”: Victorian literary and cultural conceptions of human-nature entanglement
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