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NOSTALGIA, MISERY & MEMORY

Its a marked an obvious pattern in Dickens;  a depiction of characters who employ nostalgic remembrance in a way that critiques this mode of selective memory, showing it to be harmful to both the self, who desires to remember only … Continue reading

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BETRAYED BY GUILT: MORDANT THEMES & PATHOLOGICAL DREAMS

”’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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