Knowing Dickens
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 9 of cultivating a readership: he does not italicize much, he says, because “It is framing and glazing an idea ...
10 KNOWING DICKENS In a long letter to Lewes of 25 February 1853, he claimed to know every- thing about the scientific views, bu ...
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 11 Germans (85), and in general suggests that one need go no further to account for apparitional appearances t ...
12 KNOWING DICKENS retreat: “She tells me that she has seen a Shadow for an instant—the Shadow of the Bad Shadow—passing in a gr ...
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 13 Macnish’s The Philosophy of Sleep (1830), but Dickens was always keen to test theoretical formulations agai ...
14 KNOWING DICKENS dreams are closely linked to memories, that fragments of experience we have not consciously noticed during th ...
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 15 “Language on the Loose” makes connections between the keen sense of injury expressed in Dickens’s angry or ...
16 KNOWING DICKENS The problematic nature of such interpretive practices helps to explain why biographical criticism went out of ...
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 17 life, the willful casting away of his wife Catherine in 1858, and the secret affair with Ellen Ternan that ...
18 KNOWING DICKENS at Warren’s Blacking warehouse at Hungerford Stairs off the Strand. His job was to paste labels on jars of bo ...
WHAT DICKENS KNEW 19 the autobiographical fragment in the context of Dickens’s increasing atten- tion to memory during the 1840s ...
20 Chapter 2 Language on the Loose Dickens wrote little about his own art. Even his letters to John Forster—who claimed to hav ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 21 suddenly released from the mind’s suppressions. For Dickens what results is true—possibly more true tha ...
22 KNOWING DICKENS he attempts to link his mother with Dorrit’s imprisonment, he imagines her reasoning: “I admit that I was acc ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 23 response they provoke. In particular, there are characters whose production of language is an event in ...
24 KNOWING DICKENS may have been partially fabricated from the tissue of Dickens’s own writing; in his letter he refers to “the ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 25 could assure himself that his feeling was beyond censure. Luckily for both of them, Maria did not take ...
26 KNOWING DICKENS refused “to retract one syllable of the letter” even some weeks later, after Easthope published a strongly fa ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 27 blacken retrospectively a relationship that had brought him pleasure or profit for a while is hardly an ...
28 KNOWING DICKENS of your newspapers; imputing motives to me, the very suggestion of which turns my blood to gall; and attackin ...
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