Tag Archives: David Copperfield

BETRAYED BY GUILT: MORDANT THEMES & PATHOLOGICAL DREAMS

Posted on July 15, 2010 by Dave

”’Dickens novels are not about violence, but they have a great deal of violence in them — physical violence, psychic violence, obsession, cruelty, abuse, the works,” says Steven Marcus, George Delacorte Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University and the … Continue reading →

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PURITY OF THE MIDDLE-CLASS SOUL

Posted on April 23, 2010 by Dave

Charles Dickens’s novels are far more crowded with orphaned children than the usefulness of having such malleable and pathetic agents in a work of fiction would seem to demand. In ”David Copperfield” , for example, Em’ly, Traddles, the Orfling, Mrs. … Continue reading →

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LOOK AT NOTHING BUT SEE EVERYTHING

Posted on January 7, 2010 by Dave

Andre Gide, a minor novelist, once called the “Comedie Humaine” of Balzac a great fresco crumbling to pieces a little more all the time. Given that he is not entirely wrong, it could be extrapolated today that the novel as … Continue reading →

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