Titlebook: Dickens at Play; S. J. Newman Book 1981 S. J. Newman 1981 Britain.Charles Dickens.history.history of literature.literature.nineteenth cent

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Dickens and America,ter… with no curiosity, or care, or regret…. Once… I found myself on deck…. I found myself standing, when a gleam of consciousness came upon me, holding on to something. I don’t know what. I think it was the boatswain: or it may have been the pump: or possibly the cow’ (ch. 2).

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Introduction,rt’? ‘Everything that we know of life and death is relevant to .’, says Christopher Ricks, ‘there are no holds barred’. With Dickens the critical equivalent of all-in wrestling is too often replaced by the kind of crafty faking seen on television.

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Introduction, easily be made to seem inferior, not only to that of his peers, but also to that of lesser writers such as George Eliot, Flaubert, Turgenev (lesser not in executive skill but in imaginative scope). The Dickens world is vulnerable to charges that it offers a vivid but warped view of life. Where, aft

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Nature in Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby,of an increasingly disordered sense of life. The triumph of . clearly had all kinds of effects on Dickens’s mind. It undoubtedly released immense reserves of confidence in his powers of immediate invention. On the spur of the moment he ‘thought of Mr Pickwick’; now with greater audacity he commits h

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