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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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SCHOOLBOY IN VICARIOUS DISGRACE

”His brief stint at the Blacking Factory haunted him all of his life — he spoke of it only to his wife and to his closest friend, John Forster — but the dark secret became a source both of creative … Continue reading

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EXQUISITE SECRET SUFFERING

The youth of Charles Dickens was usually spent alone, and he was constantly unhappy. The financial failings of his father, who wound up in debtor’s prison forced Charles to work, at the age of twelve, in a shoe blacking factory. … Continue reading

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DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS

Although Dickens based William Dorrit as well as Mr. Micawber, on some of the superficial mannerisms and idiosyncrasies of his father, the fundamental humiliation of Dorrit, his shame and fears , helplessness and concealments, are in all likelihood Dicken’s own. … Continue reading

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TILL DEBT DO US PART

Abandoned children and orphans are everywhere in the work of Charles Dickens, a reflection of the the child abuse and exploitation he saw in the pre-Victorian and Victorian England his work. His own, and the general sense abandonment and bertrayal … Continue reading

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