Knowing Dickens

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KNOWING DICKENS Rosemarie Bodenheimer CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS Ithaca and London n ...

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Contents Acknowledgments vii Frequently Cited Works ix What Dickens Knew 1 Language on the Loose 20 Memory 55 Another Man 9 ...

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Acknowledgments My first tribute belongs to all the scholars and editors who made the Pilgrim Edition of The Letters of Ch ...

me amused through the toils of chapter-drafting with her interest in what was brewing in the Dickens vat. My brothers Peter and ...

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Frequently Cited Works Peter Ackroyd. Dickens. New York: HarperCollins, 1991. Cited “Ackroyd.” John Forster. The Life of Ch ...

MC Martin Chuzzlewit NN Nicholas Nickleby OCS The Old Curiosity Shop OMF Our Mutual Friend OT Oliver Twist PP The Pickwick Paper ...

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Chapter 1 What Dickens Knew In April 1939 Virginia Woolf began to write an experimental memoir that was to be published post ...

2 KNOWING DICKENS genius while bemoaning his inability to treat “the mature emotions.” Once she focuses on the novel, however, h ...

WHAT DICKENS KNEW 3 for biographers and critics to know Dickens better than he knew himself. During his lifetime he was recogniz ...

4 KNOWING DICKENS when George Eliot emerged in the late 1850s, Dickens’s treatment of charac- ter was measured against her intel ...

WHAT DICKENS KNEW 5 of realities, excluding all control, all contradiction.” Following Taine, Lewes finds the “glorious energy o ...

6 KNOWING DICKENS consistently interested in what his characters know and do not know, what they tell and do not tell. As the Vi ...

WHAT DICKENS KNEW 7 Freud’s idea of the uncanny as a return of repressed but intimately familiar material is something Dickens k ...

8 KNOWING DICKENS was forced to resign from his position as Professor of Medicine at the Uni- versity of London when he became t ...