Knowing Dickens
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 29 a classic return to reality—acts as yet another bit of dismissive aggression, addressed in this case to ...
30 KNOWING DICKENS resulting from his medical skill, such as it is, and his professional attendance, in so far as it may be so c ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 31 task of translating speeches, as fast as they were made, into the shorthand language of squiggles and d ...
32 KNOWING DICKENS language from the identity of its speaker. The competition for credibility matters intensely. If it did not, ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 33 Saxon doors—confessionals like money-takers’ boxes at theatres—queer cus- tomers those monks”—and so fo ...
34 KNOWING DICKENS are occasionally duped, of course, by the big secrets and withholdings of the overarching plot. But it’s the ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 35 (Bakhtin 301–2). These descriptions name recognizable sentimental inter- ludes that Dickens apparently ...
36 KNOWING DICKENS unmasking the dynamics of self-deception. No doubt on the face of it most people concede that art cannot be m ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 37 cleverly attacked readers who resisted the portrait of Pecksniff: “as no man ever yet recognized an imi ...
38 KNOWING DICKENS “seemed to defy suspicion and challenge inquiry. There is no doubt that by day Mr Swiveller firmly believed t ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 39 Pecksniff ’s investment in denying that his view of the world is “offensive and defensive” also raises ...
40 KNOWING DICKENS counters in the money market. (Dickens was all too familiar with his father’s propensity to use or forge his ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 41 humiliating to contemplate, and humiliating to relate.. .”: so begins a letter which envisions destruct ...
42 KNOWING DICKENS enjoyment of his epistolary powers, in describing this unfortunate state of things, really seemed to outweigh ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 43 rounded figure, “and helped to make him singularly unlike the great origi- nal” (6.623). (Hunt was tall ...
44 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens’s inward association of Leigh Hunt with John Dickens made its way into the note Dickens wrote to calm ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 45 fallen from the respectability of his bourgeois marriage, full of his own need to be “righted” in his a ...
46 KNOWING DICKENS to retain the transferred impression of having been arrested since dinner” (BH 6). The “enchantment” he sprea ...
LANGUAGE ON THE LOOSE 47 because his apparently honest self-description is his rhetorical weapon, he defies knowing or understan ...
48 KNOWING DICKENS Dickens also gathers up the self-deluding egotism and the con-man effect from his earlier talkers, bringing t ...
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