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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Sketches by Boz"”.
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Victorian literature and historical time: Genre and historicity after Walter Scott
… genres convey. Focusing on Charles Dickens’s Sketches by Boz (1833-6; 1839), Arthur Hugh Clough’s Amours de Voyage (1849; 1858), George Eliot’s Adam Bede (1859), and Thomas Hardy’s Mayor of Casterbridge (1886), it demonstrates how genre-driven temporal experiments capture a sense of historical …
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Charles Dickens: artist of the grotesque
… With the vocabulary and the insights afforded by an understanding of the aesthetic of the grotesque, one can more fully define and appreciate Dickens’ achievement.</p> <p>Initially, I will establish the aesthetic category of the grotesque: its basic assumptions, characteristics, contexts and …
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Round the Corner: Pawnbroking in the Victorian Novel
… as wealth became measured increasingly by capital, and a system of banking and credit developed. As Mary Poovey has explained, Victorian writing's preoccupation with money and personal wealth, and its frequent depiction of financial crises, can be seen as an effort to understand the …